Journalist Antonio Rubio and Dr. Manuel Gertrúdix will direct the Own Degree Master’s in investigative journalism, new narratives, data, fact-checking and transparency of the URJC and Fundación Maldita.es. We are launching this master’s with the aim of training professionals for this new present; a present in which we are committed to journalism as a public service for citizens. Data journalists, developers and product managers from the most innovative digital media outlets in Spain and Ibero-America, together with reporters and long-standing investigators, teach this own degree in which you will learn to find, investigate, verify and visualize major journalistic stories. This master’s brings together the best investigative and data journalism in our country and innovation and technology placed at the service of telling our reality; and both its Director, Antonio Rubio, and its Academic Director, Manuel Gertrúdix, are the best proof of this.
Antonio Rubio is a journalist, professor, writer, editor and screenwriter. He is president of the Asociación de Periodistas de Investigación (API), former vice president of FAPE and former Deputy Director of Investigation of the newspaper El Mundo. Former director of the El Mundo Journalism master’s programs and professor/tutor of the Advanced Reporting master’s at Ramón Llull/Blanquerna. Author of the doctoral thesis on the origin of Investigative Journalism in Spain and author of: Quini del secuestro a la libertad (1981); El caso Interior (1995); El origen del GAL (1997), Lobo. Un topo en las entrañas de ETA (2003), Tramas políticas y urbanísticas al descubierto (2011), Luis de Oteyza y el oficio de investigar (2015) and El desastre de Annual a través de la prensa (in edition 2021). He is also a collections coordinator at the publishing house Libros.com. Some of his journalistic revelations have become “notitias in criminis”: GAL, Fondos Reservados, fuga de Luis Roldán, escuchas y papeles del CESID, operación Nécora, operación Sokoa, impuesto revolucionario de ETA, caso Zabalza, investigations into 11-M, Jesús Gil and corruption in Marbella, CESID, CNI, Fondos Reservados, caso Ellacuría.
Manuel Gertrúdix is Full Professor of Digital Communication at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, coordinator of the Ciberimaginario research group, and co-editor of the scientific journal Icono14. A specialist in communication and digital education, he has been PI of 8 national and international competitive research projects and has participated in more than 20. He has an extensive scientific output with more than 110 publications including research articles, book chapters and monographs related to innovation in digital communication, the development of new formats and knowledge transfer in these fields. He was Vice-Rector for Quality, Ethics and Good Governance of the URJC (2018 – 2021), Academic Director of the Center for Innovation in Digital Education of the URJC (2013-2017), Technical Advisor for New Technologies (2003-2007) and Head of the Distance Education Service of the Ministry of Education. He has been associate professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1999-2002), the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (1999-2003) and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2003-2007). Since 2017 he has been collaborating professor in the Doctorate in Innovation, Communication and Educational Technologies of the ESAE of the Instituto Latinoamericano de Cultura Educativa (Mexico). He has carried out research stays in the USA at the University of Central Florida and in Scotland at the University of Stirling, and teaching stays in Argentina at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, in Colombia at the Universidad del Norte, and in Brazil at the UDESC.
Antonio and Manuel have long professional and teaching experience and join the faculty . The master’s has the collaboration of companies such as elDiario.es, Servimedia, Prodigioso Volcán, Podimo, Datadista or The Facto, organizations where students will be able to carry out their paid internships in addition to at Maldita.es.
The 20212/2022 edition of the Master’s in Investigative Journalism, New Narratives, Data, Fact-checking and Transparency of the URJC and Fundación Maldita begins in October and pre-registration is already open: remember that places are limited and that it is necessary to pass an entrance test.
You can find all the information on the master’s website at mastermaldita.es.