Elena Ledda is an independent journalist from Sardinia. She is professor of Engagement Journalism at the BCN_NY Master Degree in Journalism, and a journalism project manager.
Elena Ledda is a Sardinian freelance journalist. She practices a constructive and solutions focused, narrative, long-form and slow journalism from a feminist perspective, one that tells stories that deal with conflicts, inequalities, and injustice, but at the same time highlights resilience, responses and alternatives to these problems.
She is an accredited trainer of the Solutions Journalism Network and a member of the International Press Institute. In 2022 together with IrpiMedia and News247.gr she has received a grant from Free Press Unlimited for an investigation on human trafficking between Nigeria and Southern Europe and was shortlisted for the 2022 Fetisov Journalism Awards. Between 2022 and 2023 she coordinated the cross-border investigation “The Bankers of irregular migration”.
From 2017 to 2020 Elena was the deputy director of the National Geographic Storica magazine. In 2020, together with journalist Monica Pelliccia, she started “Purple Keys”, a multimedia project on gender-based violence and the covid pandemics and on the feminist responses to the crisis.
In 2014 she received the Spanish national Young journalism against gender-based violence award and was selected for the 2014 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Mafias from a Female Perspective’.
Elena is also the author of The stolen body, violence and rebellion in the land of mafia, colección Reportajes 360 grados.
Since 2006 she has been living in Barcelona, where she also teaches Social Issues Journalism, journalistic Ethics from an intersectional perspective as well as Constructive and Solutions journalism at the BCN_NY Master Degree in Journalism.
Elena holds a Foreign Languages university degree in Spanish (Castellano) and Mandarin Chinese.
Photo by Oscar Rafone.
