When opened, Svetlana Alexievich's books cry out with the force of hundreds of voices. They are the testimonies that this journalist, Nobel laureate in 2015, packages and makes resound polyphonically to explain what chronicles and reports usually dilute in a sea of data, figures, and body counts. Talking with this atypical reporter of feelings is a peculiar experience: she bypasses the inevitable barrier that is established when the intervention of an interpreter is necessary, thanks to a deep gaze, the kind that communicates entire paragraphs. Alexievich visited Barcelona within the framework of the Ortega y Gasset awards presented by the newspaper El País.

How can you run a newspaper that is in Trump's crosshairs? Journalist Martin Baron did it between 2016 and 2020 when he was at the helm of the iconic Washington Post, and in front of an audience full of colleagues and journalism students, he explains what his obsession was: "To prevent Trump from getting into my head." The objective was, therefore, that he would not condition his work as director. "As journalists, we must ignore the attacks and focus on doing our job: uncovering the facts, contextualizing them, and disseminating them. He [Trump] said he was at war with the media. And I replied that we were not at war with him, we were simply doing our job, dedicated to the First Amendment of the Constitution." It is unlikely that the young students listening will receive a lesson as profound as that of the veteran American journalist, winner of 16 Pulitzer Prizes, one of them for uncovering the scandal of abuse in the Church at the Boston Globe.