Yefferson Ospina Bedoya
AMAZON RJF GRANTEE
Rainforest
Journalism Fund
Amazon
Yefferson Ospina is a reporter for El País de Cali, in Colombia. He has worked as a journalist covering armed conflict and urban violence, covering stories about the effects that the internal war in Colombia has had on different social groups as well as on the environment and the economic development of the country. In 2016 he won the international Ulrich Wickert Prize awarded in Germany for the best reports on the rights of children around the world and is currently deputy editor of the magazine Gaceta, a supplement of cultural and narrative journalism of El País newspaper. You can follow him on Twitter @Yeffospina.