Who we are

The journalists
leading Fixer Barcelona

Two journalists. Over forty combined years covering Catalonia, Spain and the world. One shared commitment: making your story happen.

Elisabet Borreda Díaz, communications specialist and co-founder of Fixer Barcelona
Co-founder & Communications Director

Elisabet
Borreda Díaz

Journalist & Communications Specialist · Barcelona

Elisabet is a journalist and communications professional with over twenty years of experience at the intersection of media, politics and institutional communications. A graduate of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, she holds two master's degrees — in Public Relations and in editorial linguistics — and has spent her career navigating the most sensitive communications environments in Catalonia.

Her institutional career spans the highest levels of Catalan public administration. She served in the Cabinet of the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, as Director of Communications for the Conselleria de Drets Socials i Família, and as Director of Communications of the Ajuntament de Lleida. This trajectory gave her an intimate knowledge of how Catalan institutions work, who the key decision-makers are, and how to navigate complex access requests at speed.

Her reach extends deep into Catalan civil society. As Head of Press at Òmnium Cultural — Catalonia's foremost cultural and civil rights organisation, with over 190,000 members — she developed privileged relationships across the cultural, political and activist networks that shape public life in Catalonia. This role, combined with her long-standing ties to the broader Catalan cultural scene, gives her access to voices and institutions that remain largely out of reach for outside journalists.

Parallel to her institutional career, Elisabet has remained active in journalism: she served as President of the Grup Ramon Barnils, Catalonia's leading association of investigative and independent journalists. Her specialisation in crisis communications and corporate affairs makes her uniquely suited to supporting international media navigating sensitive or fast-moving stories.

As a fixer, Elisabet's access to institutional networks — combined with her journalistic rigour and fluency in media logistics — provides clients with a level of facilitation that goes far beyond logistics. She opens doors that most fixers cannot reach.

Institutional access Crisis communications Political affairs Civil society access Cultural institutions Catalan politics Corporate comms Media relations Investigative support Catalan · Spanish · English
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What we bring together

Two careers built
inside the story

40+

Years of combined experience

Two careers spent covering Catalonia and Spain from the inside — in live broadcast, in politics, in the field.

Institutional access at every level

From the Parlament to the Palau de la Generalitat, from city halls to cultural institutions — we know the people and the protocols.

24/7

Operational from day one

Broadcast-trained journalists who understand your deadline, your format and what it takes to make a story work on the ground.

Albert Mercadé Massó, journalist and co-founder of Fixer Barcelona
Co-founder & Lead Journalist

Albert
Mercadé Massó

Journalist · TV3, Catalunya Ràdio, 3Cat · Tarragona, 1988

Albert is a journalist with over twenty years of experience on the front lines of Catalan and Spanish current affairs. Trained in Journalism and Telecommunications Engineering at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, he has spent his career inside the country's largest public media organisations — TV3, Catalunya Ràdio and 3Cat — covering the stories that have defined modern Catalonia.

Since 2016, he has been at the centre of every major political event in Spain: directing election-night broadcasts, covering investiture sessions at the Parlament de Catalunya and the Congreso de los Diputados, leading special programming during the independence movement, and transmitting international events such as the Concurs de Castells de Tarragona to audiences across Europe. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of TV3 news, the most-watched television newscast in Catalonia, after previously co-directing Els Matins de TV3 and serving as subdirector of El Matí de Catalunya Ràdio.

In 2022 he deployed to Ukraine as a war correspondent for Catalunya Ràdio, reporting from Kyiv, Mykolaiv and the Polish border. His daily podcast La guerra al dia brought the personal reality of the conflict to Catalan audiences. He has published two books on Catalan politics: I ara, què? (2019) and Del Procés a la revolta (2020).

As a fixer, Albert brings an unrivalled network of institutional, political and cultural contacts across Catalonia and Spain, combined with the operational fluency that only comes from two decades in live broadcast journalism.

Catalan politics War reporting Breaking news Elections & investitures TV & radio Cultural events Catalan · Spanish · English
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We have worked with
BBC · The New York Times · Al Jazeera · Le Monde · The Guardian · ARTE · DW · National Geographic · NBC News · Euronews · Der Spiegel · Wall Street Journal · Los Angeles Times · Red Bull TV · La Vanguardia · Berria · Gara

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