Vicent Partal (Valencian pronunciation: [viˈsɛm paɾˈtal]; born 1960 in Bétera, Valencia)[1] is a Spanish journalist and director of VilaWeb.

[5] Co-founder of the weekly magazine El Temps in 1983, he was a collaborator of the Diari de Barcelona and Televisión Española, where he specialized in international politics.

As a reporter and correspondent, he covered events around the world, including the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the coup d'état in the USSR and the independence process of the Baltic countries, the Balkan war, the revolt of Beijing students, the End of apartheid in South Africa, the beginning of Palestinian autonomy, the conflict in Kurdistan or several elections in the United States.

He has also published two key books to understand the evolution of sovereignty in Catalonia, A un pam de la independència (2013) and Desclassificat 9-N (2015) As for television, he has written the series Hem fet el Sud, (We made the South), and the show Una llengua que camina, a co-production between VilaWeb and Televisió de Catalunya on Escola Valenciana.

He was also the scriptwriter of the controversial program Camaleon on Spanish public TV TVE, who made a criticism of news stories staging a false coup d'état in the Soviet Union.