This week on Voices for a Cause, writer Julia Navarro talks to Ana Alonso Montes, a journalist with more than two decades of experience covering international news. With her, we delve into the important role of journalism in bringing closer, narrating and explaining the events that occur beyond any border.

In this chapter, Ana tells us the reasons why she chose international journalism as a career, with the greater freedom and the ease of languages being the two most important reasons. He also recalls his five years as a correspondent in Berlin: “It was an exceptional moment, a turning point both personally and professionally, because in 1999 the first Red-Green government in Germany was coming into power and I was 33 years old.

Ana also tells us how this experience helped her later on when she was in charge of the international section of El Mundo, being an exceptional witness of some of the most important events of the beginning of the 21st century. Events that especially marked her, such as the war in Syria “for the suffering of the population and, in our case, for the kidnapping of journalists Javier Espinosa and Ricardo García Vilanova for six months”.

Finally, Ana stresses that the war in Ukraine “concerns us very much, because it is a war for democracy, since it is really fighting for its independence and freedom”. A conflict where Fake news has also been a protagonist, being “the key to fight against them education and media literacy together with a good capacity for reflection”, according to Ana.

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