Journalist at the Observatory of Media Pluralism IIPSS. Journalist and BA in Social Communication from Diego Portales University, Chile. Bastian has 6 years of professional experience in media and communication. He worked for 3 years in El Mostrador, the first digital newspaper in Chile, covering politics, corruption, press freedom, and environmental issues. He completed an internship with the German newspaper Taz as a fellow of the Internationales Journalisten-Programme (IJP) in 2015. His journalistic coverage of climate change in Chile was granted by the bronze medal of Prince Alberto 2 of Monaco Prize of the United Nations Correspondents Association. Since 2016 he has been based in Berlin and works as a freelance journalist for Chilean and German media.