Francisco Medina

Francisco Medina (Madrid, 1956). Journalist

He began his career in 1976, right at the start of Spain’s political transition. Since then, he has worked as a reporter for various Spanish media outlets, including Prensa Española, Grupo La Vanguardia, and PRISA. In the 1980s, he served as a diplomatic correspondent and international editor at Cadena SER. From 1993 to 2003, he worked at Antena 3 Televisión, where he held various positions such as head of international news, conflict correspondent (covering Bosnia, the Middle East, etc.), and U.S. correspondent from 1996 to 2000. Later, starting in 2008, he became news director at Radio Nacional de España.

Since the 1990s, he has published several journalistic books with publishers such as Espasa and Plaza y Janés. These works cover international affairs (Hell in the Holy Land), intelligence services (The Shadows of Power – a history of Spanish secret services, which stayed on bestseller lists for weeks –, My Life Against Mossad – confessions of a Palestinian intelligence colonel –, or Spy in the Basque Country – a narrative of how the Spanish government’s first negotiations with ETA led to the dissolution of ETA’s political-military wing). He has also written about Spain's recent history (Hidden Memory of the Army – on the transition within the Armed Forces –, or 23F, The Truth – a book that also spent weeks on bestseller lists).

In 2021, he published his first novel, Parable of the Dispensable. Qualia, in Search of the Melancholic DJ is his latest novel.