Ewald Scharfenberg, Venezuela, is a journalist and consultant and currently co-director of investigative news website Armando.info. He is also chief correspondent in Venezuela for the Spanish daily newspaper El País.
From 2006 to 2012, Scharfenberg was executive director of the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad de Venezuela (Ipys Venezuela), a nongovernmental organization that supports freedom of the press, access to public information and promotes investigative journalism in Venezuela. Previously he has held positions as editor-in-chief of Revista Producto (a Venezuelan advertising and marketing trade publication), director of Letra G (the Sunday magazine of El Globo daily newspaper), and founding editor-in-chief of Revista Exceso.
Scharfenberg holds a university degree in social communication from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He was a member (on behalf of Ipys Venezuela) of the world committee, International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), a global alliance of freedom of speech monitors and advocates. From 1996 until 2006, he was the Venezuelan correspondent for Reporters Without Borders.
Since 2014, he has also been a member of the jury of the Latin American Award for Investigative Journalism (Transparency International-Ipys).
Four Venezuelan journalists in exile have suspended plans to return home as a Colombian mogul attempts to muzzle reporting on alleged fraud inside a government-run food program.
