Josep M. Palau

Josep M. Palau is a traveler by vocation and a journalist by practical reasons, since this job gives you the perfect excuse to explore the different ways of seeing and living the lives of others. For years he worked in the International section of a public radio station, where he covered conflicts such as Algeria or the Balkans as a special envoy; he always carried his camera, to capture in images what was in words. But, Then he decided that life was too beautiful to only show the negative side of things.. In this way, he enthusiastically embraced travel journalism and began to collaborate in publications such as Viajes National Geographic., Traveler Condé Nast, Altaïr, Lonely Planet Magazine o Geo. He currently has a weekly travel section in the newspaper La Vanguardia.. With it he won the “Raccontami l’Umbria” Travel Journalism Award 2010, awarded by the International Journalism Festival held in Italy. In the audiovisual field, He has written and made documentaries for TV3 – Televisió de Catalunya, TVE and for the thematic channels Culture and Nature of Vía Digital, where he became deputy director. Today he continues to produce audiovisual material from his own company, Immediate. He shares his experience with his students of Journalism and Audiovisual Communication at the Pompeu Fabra University and the Master in Narratives and Travel and Tourism Communication IDEC – UPF. He has published the books Twelve Literary Journeys (Planet), Other Worlds. Alternative and Solidarity Trips (Intermón-Oxfam) and Impertinent Geography. Beyond Bosnia (The Pomegranate, in catalan).