Montserrat Boix holds a
licentiate in Information Sciences from the
Autonomous University of Barcelona. In the early 1980s she began her professional career at in Barcelona. She later moved to Madrid to join the program
Encarna de noche, directed by
Encarna Sánchez on
COPE Madrid. In 1983 she worked on the production of
TV3's year-end special directed by Abili Roma. In 1986 she joined
TVE's information services, specializing in foreign policy issues and the Arab world,
Maghreb,
Sahel, and
Islamic movements, and
jihadist terrorism. She was a special correspondent in Algeria in the early 1990s, covering information about massacres by the
GIA and the country's
civil war, in
Sahrawi refugee camps, Morocco, Egypt, Afghanistan, Guatemala, and Bangladesh. In addition to the practice of journalism, she is a professor in Master's programs on equality, technology, communication, and development with a gender perspective at various universities, including the
International University of Andalucía and the
University of the Basque Country. She researches, in turn, how technologies serve as a tool for a new, more immediate, global, and democratized journalism. She works transversally on gender perspective and has received several awards for her work on more egalitarian journalism, among them the Recognition Award for most outstanding journalistic work in the eradication of gender violence granted by the
General Council of the Judiciary's Observatory Against Domestic and Gender Violence (2005), the for her effort and perseverance in making
Mujeres en Red one of the media of reference in the defense of women's rights (2009), and the Non-Sexist Communication Award from the Association of Women Journalists of Catalonia (2015). ==Social cyberfeminism==