Andrés Mourenza (A Coruña, 1984) is a Spanish journalist with 20 years of experience on the field. Currently working for the Spanish daily EL PAÍS and other media outlets, he has reported from Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Syria, Iraq, and the Caucasus, covering armed conflicts, political crises, economic policy, and migration. His cross-border investigative projects focus primarily on migration, human rights, and supply chains. His report “The Great Robbery” (EL PAÍS, Solomon) revealed that Greek security forces stole over €2 million from refugees during pushbacks along the Evros border. Another major project, “Hawala: The Bankers of Irregular Migration”, was shortlisted for the 2023 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize and received an honorable mention in the Trace Prize for Investigative Reporting 2024. Furthermore, “Turkey’s EU-Funded Deportation Machine”, coordinated by Lighthouse with several European media, was shortlisted for both the prestigious Premio Gabriel García Márquez and the Global Shining Light Award.
Beyond migration, Mourenza contributed to the “Xinjiang Police Files”, which won the Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) Impact Award in 2023, and the “Damascus Dossier”, examining Assad’s regime systematic torture. Most recently, “Scrap Wars”, a project with Sofia Cherici, Dogu Eroglu and Mohamad Basiki about how scrap metal from conflicts feeds the growth of the steel industry, was shortlisted for the European Press Prize and the One World Media Awards.