Ottavia Spaggiari is an award-winning investigative journalist, long-form writer, editor, and media trainer.
Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The New Yorker, Al Jazeera, The New Humanitarian and others. Her long-form on human traffickers' impunity in Italy was shortlisted for the 2021 European Press Prize in the "distinguished reporting" category. The rights for this piece have also been recently optioned for screen adaptation. In 2023 the piece she co-wrote about the brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters in Belarus after the 2020 elections received the Amnesty Media Award for Best Feature.