Ana Tudela is co-founder of DATADISTA, investigative and data journalism newsroom founded in 2016.

With 25 years of experience, she has worked as an economics and business reporter at El Economista, Público and El Español and was Chief of Content in the Spanish edition of Forbes. Contributor in media like eldiario.es, El País, Jot Down, La Sexta, RTVE and Ctxt. She is the author of Crisis S.A. (Akal, 2014) and co-author of Playa Burbuja (Datadista, 2018). Collaborating professor in different masters of investigative journalism, data and innovation in Spain. Special mention in the Ortega y Gasset 2022 Award (organized by El País) for his investigation ‘Intensive Spain’. Climate Journalism Award 2023 in Data category, Investigative Journalism Spanish Association Award 2023 in Data category and García Márquez 2023 Nominated in Coverage category for the investigation ‘The dark Trace in the Water of cheap meat big business’.

Ana Tudela

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Name
Ana Tudela
Title
Investigative economic journalist
Country
Spain
City
Madrid
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Supported projects

Forever Lobbying Project

  • Environment

BRUSSELS / PARIS - Over a year, a team of 46 journalists in 16 countries investigated an ongoing massive, orchestrated lobbying and disinformation campaign led by the PFAS industry and their allied organisations to water down a proposal to ban “forever chemicals” in the EU and shift the burden of environmental pollution onto society, threatening the economic equilibrium of European nations. 

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Under the Surface: The Untold Crisis of European Groundwater

  • Climate
  • Data Journalism
  • Environment
  • Healthcare

PARIS / BRUSSELS / MADRID – Groundwater is the ecosystem Europe has always been able to rely on, and grew to consider an infinite resource. This cross-border investigation reveals that the current state of matters is dire: our water is disappearing and what remains is facing near-irreversible pollution.

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The Forever Pollution Project

  • Environment
  • Industry

BRUSSELS - EU - Nearly 23,000 sites all over Europe are contaminated by the “forever chemical” PFAS, an exclusive, months-long investigation from 18 European newsrooms shows. The investigation “The Forever Pollution Project” revealed an additional 21,500 presumptive contamination sites due to current or past industrial activity. This contamination spreads all over Europe.

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The Dark Trace in the Water of Cheap Meat Business

  • Climate
  • Environment

ARAGÓN / HEREFORDSHIRE / LOWER SAXONY — These regions have become areas with a very high density of intensive farms. An international investigation reveals the dynamics behind the expansion and the pollution of rivers, aquifers and even tap water that it brought along. 

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