Fernando Lázaro Fernández (15 April 1966 – 14 June 2025) was a Spanish journalist and university professor, specializing in investigative journalism, and focused on security,

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war aga ...

, and defense.

Biography

Lázaro was born on 15 April 1966 in

Logroño Logroño ( , , ) is the capital of the autonomous community of La Rioja (Spain), La Rioja, Spain. Located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, primarily in the right (South) bank of the Ebro River, Logroño has historically been a place of pa ...

. After graduating from the Faculty of Communication at the

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, he began his journalistic career at the Logroño newspaper ''Diario de la Rioja'', and at the

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newspaper Diario 16. Subsequently, together with other journalists, he participated in the founding of the newspaper El Mundo, where he became editor-in-chief, and worked on several major stories: on the case of the tip-off to the separatist group

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during the government of

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, the GAL and the investigation into Lasa and Zabala, the flight of politician Jordi Pujol and his family to Andorra, and the

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in Madrid. He was also a regular radio collaborator in various media. including: EsRadio,

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, Telemadrid, and Radio Nacional de España. Lázaro died in Madrid on 14 June 2025, as a result of MALT lymphoma, with which he had been diagnosed in 1999. He was 59.

References

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