Dr Barbara Barreiro Leon

Lead content and media editor | Visual culture and identities scholar

Lecturer in Film & Visual Culture in the University of Aberdeen, works on representations of cultural identities through popular culture images in media and visual culture. She has published and participated in academic journals and conferences and is currently working on a monograph where she will discuss identities in popular culture and media such as music videos and the Eurovision Song Contest. Due to this, she has made appearances in international media, featuring in Radio interviews with the BBC, reviews of the Eurovision Song Contest in both newspapers and TV

• Eurovision Song Contest 2025 (Basel, CH) – In-person accreditation
• Eurovision in Concert 2025 (Amsterdam, NL) – In-person accreditation
• Het Grote Songfestivalfeest 2024 (Amsterdam, NL) – In-person accreditation
• Eurovision in Concert 2024 (Amsterdam, NL) – In-person accreditation
• Eurovision Song Contest 2024 (Malmö, SE) – Online accreditation
• Eurovision Song Contest 2023 (Liverpool, UK) – In-person accreditation

• EBU Academy: Reporting the Eurovision Song Contest (5/3/2025 – attended)

Maria Zapata

Podcast and website editor | Data and geopolitics

With an lifelong passion for all types of music and a special interest in 20th-century geopolitics, particularly in post-war Europe, she has found the Eurovision Song Contest to be the perfect cocktail in which to enjoy both topics. She has also applied some of her analytics experience to prepare her own dashboards on data from the festival.

• Eurovision Song Contest 2025 (Basel, CH) – In-person accreditation
• Eurovision in Concert 2025 (Amsterdam, NL) – In-person accreditation
• Eurovision in Concert 2024 (Amsterdam, NL) – In-person accreditation

• EBU Academy: Reporting the Eurovision Song Contest (5/3/2025 – attended)

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