newsroom
Catalan News is an international and multilingual team of journalists producing English-language content alongside ACN's 70 reporters across Catalonia.
Eva Arderius
Director
Anna Nogué
Deputy Director
Eva Pomares
Deputy Director
Xavier Alsinet
Editor
Lorcan Doherty
Reporter
Lorcan Doherty is an Irish journalist living in Catalonia since 2019. He joined the Catalan News reporting team in 2023 after three years presenting the Filling the Sink podcast. Lorcan previously spent five years working for the BBC in Belfast and holds a BMus in Music from the University of Manchester and an MSc in Digital Composition and Performance from the University of Edinburgh. Always a Derry boy, now a molinenc, he especially enjoys writing about culture and politics.
Cillian Shields
Reporter
Cillian Shields is an Irish reporter living in Barcelona since 2016. After graduating from Maynooth University with a BA in Media Studies and Spanish in 2014, he worked in sports journalism before moving to Catalonia. Cillian regularly appears on Catalan News' video reports as well as the Filling the Sink podcast, producing and featuring on many episodes, and has keen interests in politics, societal issues, and storytelling in the fields of sport, culture, and the idiosyncrasies of life.
