Ludovica Jona is an Italian investigative journalist contributor at Il Fatto Quotidiano online newspaper and producer of video investigations.
She has eight years' experience coordinating investigations into social and environmental issues funded by the IJC, #IJ4EU and Journalismfund. She has contributed to national and international investigative media outlets, such as The Intercept, Mediapart, L'Espresso and FQ Millennium, as well as TV programmes, including Report Rai3 and Rainews-Spotlight.
She led cross-border investigations into the gold supply chain, which contributes to Amazonian deforestation (The Gold Chain, 2023), and the environmental impact of wood-burning energy, which is classified as 'renewable' by the EU (The Logging Business, 2022). 'The Gold Chain' and 'The Logging Business' became the titles of documentaries broadcast on the Rainews24 Spotlight investigative programme, and were selected for various international festivals.
In 2019, she was the only journalist to test the EU-funded lie detector intended to combat illegal migration, as reported in her piece "The Truth Machine", broadcast on Report Rai3 and published on The Intercept. She also managed and contributed to cross-border investigations into the business practices of pharmaceutical companies during the pandemic, such as "Behind the Pledge" and "Follow the Doses", as well as an investigation into how European development funds are spent on migration control, titled "Diverted Aid".
She is the author of the documentary "Mohamed and the Fisherman", which was broadcast on various European TV channels, including Rai Storia in Italy, Yle in Finland and SF DRS in Switzerland, and was selected for several film festivals. In 2011, she produced the 23-minute video reportage "Terminal Rifugiati" for the national TV channel Rainews, exploring the issue of the "business of refugees" in Italy and discussing various cooperatives that were later involved in the public inquiry "Mafia Capitale", launched by the Italian judiciary in 2014.
