Gabriela Manuli is GIJN Deputy Director. A native of Argentina, she has been a journalist for more than ten years, working for radio and TV shows, magazines, and newspapers. From 2005 to 2009 she was a member of the investigative reporting team of Perfil Newspaper in Argentina and covered issues such as migration, human rights, and discrimination in Latin America. She also worked as IJNet’s Spanish Editor and Community Manager. As a freelance reporter she has written for several publications, including La Nación (Argentina), El Mundo (Spain) and Orsai magazine.
She earned an M.A. in Public Policy with distinctions (Media, Information and Communications Policy Specialization) at the Central European University in Budapest, and graduated with first-class honors in Social Communication Science at the University of Buenos Aires. Her academic research encompasses issues of access to information, freedom of expression, social media, and citizen journalism. Her M.A. thesis explored how politicians use social media to communicate public policies.
In 2008 she spent two months in the United States as a member of the World Press Institute Fellowship, a program for journalists from different parts of the world. Bilingual in English and Spanish, she has extensive international experience in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She is currently based in Budapest, Hungary.