Does it ever feel to you like words can't do justice to a story? Particularly stories about disaster, conflict and crisis. That even though the events are documented there in black and white, it's not quite the same as putting the reader in the shoes of those affected. What if there was another way?

Two years ago, floods broke out in Valencia, Spain, causing catastrophic damage and resulting in 223 fatalities and 15,000 displaced residents, not to mention long-term environmental and financial consequences.

How do you recapture that moment for your audience? How do you take them there and help them understand what it was like?

Verónica Muñoz Martínez is a Spanish journalist who saw the disaster unfold from the UK, where she is now based. She knew she had to act.

"These were my people, my country. It could have been my family, too. So I couldn't just sit and watch from afar," she says at Newsrewired (14 May 2026), standing on stage in a muddy hazmat suit.