CV Javier Díaz Muriana

Journalist. Graduate in Journalism from the University of Malaga, Interuniversity Master's Degree in Culture of Peace, Education, Conflicts and Human Rights from the Institute of Peace and Conflicts and the University of Malaga and Official Master's Degree in Development Cooperation, Public and NGDO Management from CICODE and FUNDEA of the University of Granada.

As a journalist he began his work as an editor for a year at the local newspaper El Día de Antequera y Comarca. Since 2009 he has carried out several research projects on Communication for Social Change in collaboration with NGDOs and has won the prize for the Best Research Work Manuel Castillo 2012 awarded by the University of Valencia.

He has worked as a cooperation technician and journalist in Palestine, where he directed the documentary Existir es Resistir, which premiered in the official section of the Malaga Film Festival. He writes about communication and Palestine in several magazines and on-line media (La Marea, El Diario.es, El Salto, Pueblos, Rebelión). He has worked as a cooperation technician in the Al-Quds Association of Solidarity with the Peoples of the Arab World (Malaga), and in the Cooperation and Volunteering Unit of the University of Jaén.

He has directed several radio programmes in Málaga (Onda Color) and special news formats for which he won the award for best news content at the Andalusian Local Audiovisual Communication Awards in 2014 and at Uniradio (Jaén) with the programme UJA Coopera (2021-2023).

He has been coordinating several projects on international law, psychosocial health and healthcare in both the West Bank and Gaza, where he has visited up to 6 times. He is currently an international consultant and organisational secretary of the Andalusian Union of Journalists (SPA). He is also an active member of the Coordinadora Andalucía con Palestina.