BIO
José Luis Gallego (Barcelona, 1964) is currently fead of the Environment section at El Confidencial and a contributor to the Onda Cero radio program Julia en la Onda. The jury has recognized him for his career of three decades in environmental reporting “combining scientific rigor with commitment to the values of nature conservation across multiple channels and formats, including radio, print, television and book publications.”
The career of this “environmental storyteller,” as he describes himself, is a mosaic of media and formats that includes articles in magazines such as Integral, National Geographic or GEO and newspapers like El Periódico de Catalunya and La Vanguardia, where he was co-founder with Antonio Cerrillo and Joaquim Elcacho of the environment supplement Natural. It was also at La Vanguardia that he began his work as a columnist, which he would later continue in the pages of El País, El Periódico and eldiario.es. In the late 90s he began a collaboration with Julia Otero that continues to this day, which he combines with heading the Environment section of El Confidencial. In the interim, he has published more than 30 books and worked in television in roles ranging from that of a regular contributor, for 11 seasons, to Els matins de TV3, to director, scriptwriter and presenter of three nature series: Naturalmente (TVE), Terra Verda (TVE Cataluña) and Riu Avall (TV3).