Maria-Magdalena Bărăscu is a journalist and a PhD candidate in Communication and Interculturality at University of Valencia. She received a BA in journalism from the University of Bucharest and then went on to study Media Management at the University of Westminster, on a Chevening scholarship. She continued with a program in Innovation in Media Management at Berlin University for Professional Studies as she won a scholarship from City of Vienna.
Her work has been recognized by United Nations, Journalist of the Year 2005.