Emilia Díaz-Struck

Emilia Díaz-Struck, Venezuela, is investigative reporting coordinator at the Press and Society Institute of Venezuela and a professor of journalism at the School of Communication Sciences at Central University of Venezuela.

She also writes for the investigative website Arman- do.info, which she cofounded. Diaz-Struck has written for the magazine Poder y Negocios and Venezuelan Newspapers El Universal and El Mundo. Among her investigations: a collaboration with Costa Rica’s La Nación newspaper on a real estate scandal involving a former Venezuelan magistrate who fled ahead of an arrest warrant, and an examination of a flurry of new business deals in Venezuela financed by Eastern European investors. Diaz-Struck is a former fellow at the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo and Investigative Reporters and Editors. Among her awards is the VI Latin-American Prize for Thesis in Communication, from the Latin-American Federation of Social Communication Faculties.