Professor in the Department of Media, Communication, and Culture at UAB
President of Learn to Check.


Nereida Carrillo holds a PhD cum laude in Journalism and Communication from the UAB, is a professor of Journalism at the UAB and president of the association of media education against disinformation Learn tone Check. As a journalist, she has worked for more than a decade in media such as the SER chain, in the newspaper Ahora and in the news website of TV3. She has taught at several Catalan universities. Learn tono Check, the project she directs, has trained more than 13,000 people throughout Spain on disinformation and digital verification and has promoted transformative projects with administrations and entities such as the European Commission, the European Parliament, the U.S. Embassy and Consulate, UNICEF Spain and the Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation. She is the author of the popular book on verification “Fake Over” (Flamboyant publishing house), translated into a dozen languages and selected by the prestigious White Ravens list as one of the best youth books of 2023 on an international scale.