About the Newsroom
Sevilla Report was founded in 2016 to do one job that the Spanish national press no longer had the budget for: stay in Andalusia, file original local stories, and check them twice before publishing. We are not a wire desk in Madrid and we are not a tourism portal. We are eleven journalists, four contributing columnists, and three fact-checkers working out of a single newsroom on Calle Reyes Católicos, in Seville.
Every article you read on this site is reported by a named correspondent based in the region it concerns, edited by a second pair of eyes in Seville, and supported by the primary documents — court filings, council minutes, municipal budgets, EU agricultural payments, registry data — that allow you to verify what we have written. The newsroom publishes in English because our largest paying audience reads in English: expatriates, second-home owners, investors, researchers, and institutions that need substantive regional coverage beyond the tourist headline tier. We are reader-funded: in 2024, seventy-eight per cent of our revenue came from individual subscribers, not advertisers. That is the only reason we can spend six months reporting the Doñana drought series without a sponsor looking over our shoulder.
This page is the institutional self-portrait we owe every reader, funder, source, and source's lawyer. It tells you who founded the newsroom, who works here now, where we are physically located, what we will and will not publish, how we are funded, and how to reach us when we get something wrong.
— Isabel Moreno Vega & Robert Daw, co-founders, Sevilla
The Masthead
Sevilla Report is staffed by people with names, faces, and direct telephone lines. The newsroom was founded in 2016 by two journalists who had spent their careers covering Spain from inside Spain and abroad, and decided that southern Spain deserved a newsroom of its own.
Isabel Moreno Vega
Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief
Former Andalucía correspondent for El País (2009–2016). Before that, a staff reporter at Diario de Sevilla covering municipal politics and the 2008 financial crisis. Isabel founded Sevilla Report after fifteen years of watching regional desks in Spain get absorbed into Madrid-centric newsrooms. She edits long-form investigations and oversees the climate and property beats.
Robert Daw
Co-founder & Publisher
Former editor at BBC Mundo in London (2007–2015), where he led the launch of BBC Mundo's Americas desk. Robert oversees commercial operations, reader-funded revenue, and the partnerships with international investigative consortia. He is the newsroom's compliance officer for data protection and source security.
Editorial Standards
Sevilla Report's credibility rests on the same premise as every serious newsroom: tell readers where the information came from, distinguish what you know from what you don't, and correct the record in public when you get something wrong. The policy below is binding on every staff journalist, contributor, and freelancer we publish under our name.
Every claim of fact in a Sevilla Report article is attributed. Anonymous sources are used only when (a) the information cannot be obtained on the record, (b) the source has direct first-hand knowledge of the matter, and (c) publication serves a clear public interest. Anonymous sourcing is approved by the editor-in-chief and a second senior editor. The reason for anonymity is stated in the article unless doing so would identify the source.
Staff journalists may not hold paid positions with, or significant financial interests in, any political party, municipal government, public contractor, or property developer active in Andalusia. Personal relationships with public officials are disclosed to the editor before any reporting assignment. Hospitality from sources is logged in the newsroom register and disclosed in the relevant article when material.
Where a story rests on documents — court rulings, council minutes, registry data, EU agricultural payments, financial filings — the documents are archived and the archive reference is appended to the article. Readers may request access to the underlying documents through the documents desk. We will withhold identifying details of confidential source documents, but the substance will be made verifiable.
Sevilla Report does not publish articles generated by generative AI. Machine translation is permitted only as a draft aid for first-pass translation of primary documents; every translated passage is reviewed and approved by a named editor. AI tools are not used to generate photographs, illustrations, or quotations.
Opinion columns are clearly labelled as such in the masthead, the article header, and the URL pattern. Opinion columns reflect the views of the named columnist only and do not represent the editorial consensus of the newsroom. Staff editorial positions, where the newsroom takes one, are published under the label "Editorial" and signed by the editor-in-chief.
Every correction, clarification, and update is appended to the original article, dated, and signed by the editor on duty. Corrections are never silently overwritten. The full pre-correction text of the affected passage is preserved in the article's revision history, accessible from the article footer. Significant factual errors are also flagged in the daily newsletter the morning after publication. The cumulative corrections log is published at /about/#corrections-log.
Any individual or institution that is the subject of a critical factual allegation in a Sevilla Report article is offered a right of reply before publication, except where doing so would compromise a confidential source or an ongoing investigation. The substance of any reply received is reflected in the article.
This policy is reviewed annually by the editor-in-chief and the publisher. The current version was last revised in January 2025. To report a possible breach of this policy, write to [email protected]; that address is read only by the publisher and is outside the newsroom's general editorial workflow.
Awards, Memberships, and Funding
2023
IPI–EFE Award for Press Freedom in Ibero-America
Awarded by the International Press Institute in Vienna for sustained reporting on threats to local press freedom in Andalusia, including the series on SLAPP suits against municipal reporters.
2024
European Press Prize — Finalist, Local Reporting
Shortlisted for the nine-part investigation "Drought and Debt in Doñana," published in partnership with two Portuguese regional outlets and OCCRP.
2024
European Journalism Centre — Cross-Border Regional Reporting Grant
Awarded for an ongoing 2025 series tracing water-rights transfers between the Andalusian and Murcian regional governments.
Member
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) consortium & OCCRP partner outlet for Spain
Sevilla Report is a partner outlet of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project for cross-border investigations touching Spain, and a member newsroom of the IRE consortium.
Funding
78% reader-funded, 2024
In 2024, seventy-eight per cent of revenue came from individual digital subscribers; the remainder from editorial grants and reader-supported event programming. The newsroom does not run display advertising and does not accept paid content.
Subscribers
38,400 paying digital subscribers
As of the 2025 mid-year count. Average 412,000 monthly readers across web, app, and the weekday newsletter Andalucía Today, which reaches 71,200 inboxes every weekday morning.
Corrections Log
The full, dated log of corrections issued since founding is maintained at /about/#corrections-log and updated every Friday. In 2024 the newsroom issued 41 corrections, 9 of which were material factual changes requiring an editorial note in the following morning's newsletter.
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