Matteo Fagotto

Matteo Fagotto is an award-winning Italian author, writer and podcast host based in Barcelona. His reports have appeared in over a hundred publications worldwide, including TIME, Newsweek, Foreign Policy and Audible. Fagotto has reported extensively from more than thirty countries, covering themes such as war-related issues, illegal mining, land grabbing and modern-day slavery. Since 2016, his work has revolved around the relationship between humankind and Nature, told through stories of Indigenous communities worldwide and their struggle to adapt to climate change.

Fagotto started his storytelling career in 2009, as the Africa Desk chief editor at the Peace Reporter press agency in Milan , before embarking on a freelance career that brought him to live in South Africa, Lebanon and Spain.

Among his most notable works are TV documentaries and radio reports on war-torn Somalia, Sudan and Central African Republic for Channel 4, BBC Radio and Sky TV. In 2011, he received the first prize at the Novinarska Cena journalism award for a series of stories on the Lybian civil war.

His first podcast, The Lost – a two-year-long investigation on the tens of thousands of Spain’s stolen children still looking for their biological families – premiered on Audible in October 2022.

Fagotto is the co-founder of Tandem Reportages, a storytelling agency specialised in underreported global issues through high-quality visuals and narratives.

Fagotto has an M. A. in History at La Sapienza University in Rome. He speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian.