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director, Mutante, Bogotá, Colombia

Juan Camilo Maldonado Tovar

Knight Latin American Fellow, Class of 2025

Juan Camilo Maldonado Tovar is the director and co-founder of Mutante, a not-for-profit foundation that reports, produces and analyzes public conversations for audiences in Colombia and Latin America. In early 2024, Mutante was awarded the King of Spain Award for Best Media Outlet in Ibero-America for a “new type of journalism that goes beyond the sole publishing of stories” that “interacts with the public.” 

Previously he was editor of local news at El Espectador, and co-founder and editorial director of VICE Colombia and ¡PACIFISTA!, a specialized platform that covered peace building processes in Colombia for young audiences. In 2019 he was a member of the jury of the Simón Bolivar Journalism Award, Colombia’s most important journalism prize. JSK welcomes him as a Knight Latin American Fellow.