About Us

Nereida Carrillo

President, Project Management and Training at Learn to Check

PhD in Journalism and Communication, journalism lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and president of the Learn to Check association. Since 2018, Nereida Carrillo has led Learn to Check’s training programmes and projects, an organisation dedicated to promoting media and information literacy (MIL) that has directly trained more than 14,000 people and collaborates with over 70 organisations across Spain. She is the author of the book Fake Over (Flamboyant Publishing), a rigorous and engaging guide to learning how to fact-check. As a journalist, she has contributed to the newspaper ARA and worked for the TV3 news website as well as in the Barcelona and Tarragona newsrooms of Cadena SER. As a researcher, she has published on infotainment, misinformation, and media literacy.

Marta Montagut

Vice President and Training at Learn to Check

PhD in Communication from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Strategic Communication at URV, researcher, and journalist. She has published articles on political communication, framing, and radio in journals such as Journalism Studies and Radio Journal. After several years working as a radio journalist (COM Ràdio, Cadena SER, and Catalunya Ràdio), she now focuses on research and teaching. She is currently working on the critical analysis of political discourse and on topics related to misinformation and media literacy. Since the very beginning, she has worked alongside Nereida Carrillo to develop and ensure the continuity of the media literacy project.

Toni Mata

Audiovisual Content Creation

Scriptwriter, author, presenter and Journalism graduate (UAB). As an author, he has published works including Nacidos para ser Breves (Joaquim Ruyra 2019 award winner) and Momentos poco Estelares de la Humanidad (Planeta). As a scriptwriter, he has written for comedy programmes (BFN, El Hormiguero, Juego de Niños, Còmics), historical education (El lloc dels fets) and interviews (Estranyes Parelles). He is a creator and director of televisual formats, has taught television at UVic and delivered a number of masterclasses in infotainment and scriptwriting at the UAB, URL and UB. He currently directs, writes and presents the 20Vint stand-up programme for TVE Cataluña.

Marina Meseguer Torres

Content, Project Coordinator and Learn to Check Training

She holds a degree in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and specializes in digital information and international relations. She is currently a project officer at Learn to Check, where she develops projects, creates content, and provides training in media and information literacy and against disinformation. She has worked for over 14 years as a reporter at the newspaper La Vanguardia. During this time, she was a correspondent in countries such as Iran, Iraq, Ukraine, Russia, Mozambique, and Estonia and interviewed public figures like Noam Chomsky, Vitali Klitschko, Stella Assange, Jeremy Corbyn, Shlomo Ben-Ami, and Nobel Peace Prize laureates Maria Ressa and Shirin Ebadi. In 2014, the U.S. Department of State awarded her the ‘Edward R. Murrow’ fellowship for her journalistic work. Her main research topics focus on hate ideologies, conspiracy theories, and the impact of disinformation.

Roger Cuartielles

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Professor of communication and predoctoral researcher at Pompeu Fabra University, where he researches disinformation, artificial intelligence and fact-checking. He is also part of the Public Tech Media Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a visiting researcher at the JournalismAI project at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), at the Center for Data Science and Complexity for Society at La Sapienza – Università di Roma, and at the Kristiania University of Applied Sciences (Oslo).

In the field of teaching and knowledge transfer, he has been a professor at the University of Barcelona, ​​the Ramon Llull-Blanquerna University and the Open University of Catalonia. He is also a trainer in media education in schools and institutes, as well as in information and communication management for teachers, institutions and associations.

He graduated in Journalism and Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University and has a Master’s in Communication Research (UPF), a Master’s in Journalism and Digital Communication: Data and New Narratives (UOC) and a Master’s in Teacher Training (UVic).

Before turning his career towards research and teaching, he worked and collaborated in various media outlets, including Europa Press Catalunya, Europa Press Televisió, Diari Ara, Time Out Barcelona, ​​Betevé and various local media. He has also collaborated with the Bofill Foundation and is a member of the Catalan Media Education Platform of the Catalan Audiovisual Council (CAC).

Within the framework of Learn to Check, he participates in training and transfer activities related to media education, information verification and the critical use of artificial intelligence.

Uxía Carral

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She holds a PhD in Journalism and is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her research interests lie at the intersection of digital innovation applied to communication and technological humanism. She is a member of the research group ‘Analytics, Media and Public Engagement: Communication, Journalism and Technology Lab’ (UC3M MediaLab) and is currently involved in several European and Spanish research projects, including the Jean Monnet Chair “EU, disinformation & fake news.” Previously, she worked as a journalist for media outlets (Cadena SER) and fact-checking platforms (Newtral), as well as a research assistant in the European projects OpenEUDebate (UAM) and EUCOPOL (UC3M). She is the author of various scientific articles, book chapters, and co-author of the book Comunicación Europea: ¿A quién doy like para hablar con Europa? (Ed. Dykinson, 2019).

Cristina Valentí Ternero

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Cristina Valentí Ternero (Girona, 1982) has a degree in Journalism (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), a master’s degree in Cultural Management (Universitat de Barcelona) and works at the University of Girona. Her interest in mitigating disinformation has led her to collaborate with the educational project Learn to check. As a journalist, she has worked in media outlets such as Diari de Girona, Barcelona Televisió and El Periódico. She co-directed the documentary Mind the Strip and is co-author of the script for the documentary 501 (Gaudí Award from the Catalan Film Academy). She has organized cultural events and has been press officer for several film awards and festivals.

Miquel Urmeneta

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Journalist and Doctor in Communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). His thesis, awarded by the Catalan Audiovisual Council, studies the formation of public opinion. This research is based on an analysis of communication on networks and specifically addresses phenomena such as disinformation and polarization. He has participated in international conferences and seminars, in addition to giving lectures and workshops on ‘fake news’, post-truth, and the impact of digitalization on our democracies. His analyses have appeared in various publications, including the newspaper ‘El País’, Nació Digital, and the ‘Cabecera’ magazine of the College of Journalists of Catalonia. For over 10 years, he has been teaching at various universities and master’s programs. Professionally, he has held roles in communication and marketing for digital content sector companies, nonprofit organizations, and consultancies.

Laia Paretas Almirall

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Graduated in Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She has worked at the RACC, the Urgell Civic Center and in the field of local communication. She currently co-directs her own company, specializing in audiovisual, digital and corporate communication. She has training and years of experience in leisure education for children and young people.

Jordi de Arriba

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Journalist, editor and director of iSabadell, a digital newspaper in Sabadell that he founded in 2012. A graduate in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), he has more than 20 years of professional experience in journalism, especially in the fields of digital journalism, local journalism and journalistic entrepreneurship. Before launching iSabadell, he worked in various media outlets, including Canal 50, Diari de Sabadell, Canal Català Vallès Oriental or Ràdio Sant Celoni, and collaborated as a freelancer with the supplements ‘Vivir’ or ‘Revista’ of ‘La Vanguardia’. In 2005 he won the Ramon Barnils Prize for Investigative Journalism. In 2020, iSabadell was selected by Google in Catalonia as part of an extraordinary fund to support the press during the pandemic. As a trainer for Learn to Check, he has given workshops at universities and institutes on disinformation and media literacy.

Eva Gabarrós

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Graduated in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, her career has been closely linked to local media. She was a reporter and news manager at Gavà Televisió and participated in the Una Mirada Crítica collection by Aulamedia. Since 2012, she has worked on her own communication project, creating content as well as providing training. She has collaborated with the Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya, the Diputació de Barcelona, and the City Council of Viladecans.

Marta Meneu

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Journalist and content creator. Graduated in Journalism from the University of Valencia and with a Master’s in Media, Communication, and Culture from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Academically, she specializes in communication and youth, exploring the generational gap in the media and analyzing new communicative practices in the digital environment, with a particular focus on media education. Professionally, she works as a freelance communicator in culture. She has worked at literary festivals, in the publishing world, and in the music industry within corporate communication. Additionally, she manages several personal projects in the digital space, such as the literary dissemination channel “la estantería” and the podcast “en clave Z” deparkineo.

Berta Francàs

Learn to Check Trainer

PhD in Translation, Gender, and Cultural Studies. Journalist with studies in Criminology and a Master’s Degree in Strategic Communication and Business Management. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, Vocational Training, and Language Teaching. After working in various media outlets, she served for six years as Head of Communications for the City Council of Berga. In recent years, she has led communications for several organisations while combining this work with teaching in secondary education. Since 2020, she has been the director of laberta – comunicació viva, a communications agency with a strong social focus, specialising in social action, youth, education, and culture. She is a trainer at Learn to Check, a contributor to Jornal.cat and El Punt Avui, and has also worked as a leisure education instructor for more than twelve years.

Elisa Piñón Hermida

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She studied journalism at the University of Santiago de Compostela and completed a master’s degree in International Studies on Media, Power and Diversity at the Pompeu Fabra University. She began her career in scientific communication at the University of Copenhagen and currently works as a scientific communicator at the Institut Català d’Oncologia (ICO). She combines this work with that of a trainer in media education through various organizations (Col legi de Periodistes de Catalunya; Learn to Check).

Àlex González

Learn to Check Trainer

Predoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and a Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising and Public Relations from URV, a Master’s Degree in Digital Marketing and E-commerce from EAE Business School, and a Master’s Degree in Corporate Communication Management and Research from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication at URV. After more than fifteen years of experience in corporate communications and digital marketing, he now focuses on university teaching and research. He teaches across the three communication degree programmes at URV, and his research focuses on digital communication, audiovisual platforms, and the production, distribution, and consumption of content in digital environments.

Carlota Moragas

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Serra Húnter Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). She holds an International PhD in Anthropology and Communication and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies. As a researcher, she studies topics related to political communication and discourse analysis, as well as the impact of digitalisation on the public sphere and the formation of public opinion. Her research has been published in JCR- and SCOPUS-indexed academic journals, as well as in SPI-indexed books and book chapters, and has led her to participate in national and international research projects and conferences.

Marta Roqueta

Learn to Check Trainer

Lecturer in the Department of Journalism at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She holds a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and an MA in Gender Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her research focuses on the analysis of misinformation from an intersectional feminist perspective. A writer and journalist, she has contributed feminist analysis to media outlets including TV3, Catalunya Ràdio, RAC1, El Periódico, El Punt Avui, El Nacional, and El Temps.

Neus Molina

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Professor of the Global Studies Degree at the University of Girona (UdG) and of Cultural and Gender Journalism and Communication Media at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She is a member of the POMAC Research Group (Power, Mass Media & Global Cultures) at the UdG and the SGR Body and Textuality Group (UAB). She holds a degree in Journalism and Humanities and a PhD in Media, Communication and Culture from the UAB. Her areas of interest include communication and journalism from a gender perspective, intersectional feminism and contemporary cultural trends. She has also been a lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), the UOC and Ramon Llull University. She has worked as a secondary school teacher in Barcelona and at the Instituto Cervantes in London, Belgrade and Palermo. She writes about feminism and culture for La Directa, eldiario.es, Diari Ara, Público and La Marea. She has undertaken research stays at the University of Padua and the University of Venice.

Júlia Astral

Audiovisual and training Learn to Check

Journalist, communicator and content creator. I started doing radio at the age of 14 and, since then, I have worked in different media and projects linked to radio, television and content creation. I currently collaborate with RNE, where I am part of “La Tàctica”, and with Inèdit Diari, where I create current affairs content for social networks. I am especially interested in explaining current affairs in a clear, accessible way and adapted to new formats.

Cristina Garde Cano

Learn to Check Trainer

She holds a Cum Laude PhD in Media, Communication and Culture from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), with the dissertation Beyond the Black Mirror: A Defence of Journalism in the Age of Blob Communication and Containment Capitalism, which received recognition at the 34th CAC Awards for Research on Audiovisual Communication. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, 2007) and a degree in Arts and Design from Escola Massana (2014). She also completed a postgraduate programme in Digital Publication Design at EINA (2014) and a postgraduate programme in Social and Labour Journalism at UAB (2008). She has worked as a journalist for El País, El Periódico, and Nació, and served as Brussels correspondent for the Catalan News Agency (ACN). She was editor-in-chief of Social.cat and founded and coordinated the digital magazine deriva. She has received two awards from the Government of Catalonia and Barcelona City Council (Civisme Awards, 2018 and 2019; Montserrat Roig Awards, 2020). Her projects explore and expose mechanisms of power and media languages through the synergy of journalism, communication, and art. She currently teaches in the Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), the Official Master’s Degree in Media, Communication and Culture at UAB, and the Master’s Degree in Philosophy for Contemporary Challenges at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). She is also a researcher in the consolidated DigiDoc research group at UPF.

Estel Simó

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Journalist, graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She conducted her final degree project on media education and participated in the first digital verification workshops at the American Space. She currently works in Mallorca as a reporter for the afternoon program on IB3 Television, the public channel of the Balearic Islands. She has also worked at IB3 Radio, the news agency Europa Press (Barcelona and Palma), Betevé, and Els Matins on TV3.

Marta Narberhaus Martínez

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Journalist and Doctor in Communication (UPF). Member of the UNIC Research Group (Unit for Communication Research) at UPF, the Catalan Society of Communication (Institut d’Estudis Catalans), and the Platform for Media Education of the CAC (Audiovisual Council of Catalonia), where she collaborates with the working group on responsible screen use. She is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at UIC, where she teaches in the fields of Journalism and Audiovisual Communication. Her research areas include media education, journalism ethics, communication, and information quality. She has worked at Catalunya Ràdio, Spanish Radio and Television (RTVE), and has provided communication consulting for various companies and organizations. In 2017, she won the First Prize in Audiovisual Communication Research from the CAC for her doctoral thesis “Children’s News: Topics, Information Quality, and Audience Reception of Newsround, Logo, and Info K” (UPF, 2016). She has published several articles and studies on the relationship between young people and the media, the internet, and social networks. She is co-author of the book “Pantallas: ¡que no te dominen!” (Bindi Books, 2023), a practical guide to navigating screens aimed at preadolescents. She also participates in other transfer activities, such as the “Otras Voces: vencer la desinformación” cycle from the Network of Libraries of the Diputació de Barcelona.

Montse Jiménez Vila

Pedagogical Advisor at Learn to Check

Pedagogical Director of the Verduna–Prats de la Carrera school in Palafrugell (Girona). She combines her teaching work with teacher training. Her professional career has been closely linked to innovation, leadership, and digital and educational transformation. At Learn to Check, she collaborates as a pedagogical advisor on a range of projects.

Miquel Àngel Prats

Pedagogical Advisory Learn to Check

He is a teacher, psychopedagogue, and Doctor in Pedagogy from the Faculty of Psychology, Education Sciences, and Sport Blanquerna at the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. He is currently a tenured professor of Educational Technology, the lead researcher of the eduTIC line within the consolidated research group PSiTIC (Pedagogy, Society, Innovation, and ICT) at the FPCEE Blanquerna of Ramon Llull University, and the coordinator of the Master’s in Pedagogical Innovation Leadership and Educational Management. In 2020, he was awarded the XXX Joan Profitós Prize for Pedagogical Essay for his work 10 Lessons for an Ethical, Healthy, and Responsible Use of Digital Technologies. At Learn to Check, he collaborates on pedagogical advisory tasks in various projects.

Núria Ruiz Morillas

Scientific Advice and Learn to Check Training

Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) since 1997, with extensive trajectory in teaching, research, science communication, and academic management. She is a Ph.D. in Chemistry, graduated in Chemistry and in Audiovisual Communication, and a master’s in Studies of China and Japan: Contemporary World. She has been recognized with the Prize from the Consell Social URV for Teaching Quality (2018, 2021, and 2023), the Distinction Jaume Vicens Vives for University Teaching Quality (2018), and the Prize for Teaching Excellence URV (2020). She is a member of the research group from URV Innovation in Catalysis. Currently, her research focuses on interdisciplinarity between chemistry, social sciences, and humanities. She participates in workshops of science communication organized by URV, the Fundació Catalana per la Recerca i la Innovació, cultural associations, and libraries, in addition to carrying out educational activities in vulnerable environments. In 2020, she received the Distinction of Merit from the Consell Comarcal del Tarragonès for her outreach work. She has co-directed and co-presented the radio program Ones de Ciencia (2019-2023), awarded with the Premio de Comunicación Local (2020) as best audio content. She has been the training coordinator in the Instituto de Ciencias de las Educación from URV and is currently the academic coordinator of the Chemistry Degree at the same university.

Marc Esteve Del Valle

Coordinator/content creator of the climate disinformation area

PhD in Internet Studies at the Interdisciplinary Internet Institute (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). He is an assistant professor at the Center for Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection between digital communication and social change, with a particular focus on environmental issues. He is currently working on analyzing digital threats (disinformation, malicious bots, conspiracy theories, etc.) to promote healthy environmental debates online, and equip internet users with new, stronger media literacy skills to effectively counter these threats. He regularly participates in public outreach activities to complement his academic work (e.g. El País, Huffington Post, The Conversation) and is a regular contact for journalists when they require expert opinions on topics related to social media (e.g. Associated Press and Euronews).