Fernando Lázaro Fernández

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lázaro and the second or maternal family name is Fernández.

Fernando Lázaro Fernández (15 April 1966 – 14 June 2025) was a Spanish journalist and university professor, specialising in investigative journalism, and focused on security, terrorism, and defense.[1]

Life and career

Lázaro was born on 15 April 1966 in Logroño. After graduating from the Faculty of Communication at the University of Navarra, he began his journalistic career at the Logroño newspaper Diario de la Rioja, and at the Madrid newspaper Diario 16.[2]

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 ETA during the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the GAL and the investigation into Lasa and Zabala, the flight of politician Jordi Pujol and his family to Andorra, and the COVID-19 pandemic in Madrid.[3]

He was also a regular radio collaborator in various media. including: EsRadio, Televisión Española, Telemadrid, and Radio Nacional de España.[4]

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.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Muere Fernando Lázaro, el periodista que destapó el 'caso Faisán' y publicó la foto que mostró a España el horror de la Covid". El Español (in Spanish). 15 June 2025. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
  2. ^ "El periodista Fernando Lázaro obtiene el galardón periodístico Alberto Jiménez Becerril". Diario ABC (in Spanish). 8 November 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
  3. ^ Independiente, El (14 June 2025). "Fallece Fernando Lázaro, maestro del periodismo de investigación". El Independiente (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2025.
  4. ^ "La Iglesia otorga el premio Bravo a Fernando Lázaro por su foto de la morgue del Palacio de Hielo de Madrid". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 3 December 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
  5. ^ Digital, Periodista (14 June 2025). "Fallece a los 59 años Fernando Lázaro, maestro del periodismo de investigación y voz esencial en El Mundo". Periodista Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2025.
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