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Juan Luis Cebrián Echarri (born 30 October 1944)[1] is a Spanish journalist and businessman, the co-founder of El País. He was CEO of Prisa, a Spanish media conglomerate, from 2012 to 2017, until ousted by Joseph Oughourlian.
Juan Luis Cebrián | |
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| Chairman of Prisa | |
| In office 2012–2017 | |
| Vice president of the Asociación de Medios de Información | |
| Assumed office May 2017 | |
| Seat V of the Real Academia Española | |
| Assumed office 18 May 1997[a] | |
| Preceded by | Emilio García Gómez |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Juan Luis Cebrián Echarri 30 October 1944 Madrid, Spain |
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| Alma mater | Universidad Complutense |
| Occupation | Journalist, business and writer |
Early life and education edit
Cebrián was born in Madrid in 1944.[2] He studied philosophy at the Universidad Complutense, and earned a bachelor's degree from the Escuela Oficial de Periodismo.[3]
Career edit
He was one of the founding members of the political magazine Cuadernos para el Dialogo and worked from 1963 to 1975 as a senior worker and deputy editor of daily newspaper Pueblo and Informaciones de Madrid.[4]
He was the founding editor of the daily newspaper El País, in which he edited from 1976 and 1988.[2] Between 1986 and 1988 he was the chairman of the International Press Institute (I.P.I) .[citation needed]
In December 1996, Cebrián was elected to Seat V of the Real Academia Española, and took up his seat in May 1997.[1]
He was chairman of PRISA from 2012 to 2017.[5][6] Details of his dismissal were not clear in 2017.[7] Cebrián left all his executive positions in PRISA on May 21, 2018.[citation needed]
Since May 2017, Cebrian has been vice president of the Asociación de Medios de Información (AMI), chaired by Javier Moll.[8]
In April 2024, Cebrián was dismissed as honorary president of El País, after he signed on to the digital periodical "The Objective".[9][10]
Cebrián managed the news service Televisión Española.[citation needed]
Various international media have considered Cebrián one of the ten most influential Spaniards in Spain and Latin America for 44 years (from 1976 to 2019).[citation needed]
He has been the only Hispanic academic member of the Bilderberg Club and the only Spanish-speaking member with executive functions in that organization.[citation needed]
Between 1980 and 2016 Cebrián published 19 books in Spanish consisting of fiction and essay based writing, including the first part of his memoirs.[citation needed]
Controversies edit
Cebrián has been mentioned in the Panama Papers.[11][dead link] La Sexta revealed in 2016, that he owned 2% of Star Petroleum, an oil corporation with offshore tax havens. After the publication, he decided to take legal action against La Sexta.[12][13]
Notes edit
- ^ Elected on 19 December 1996
References edit
- ^ a b "Juan Luis Cebrián Echarri". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 May 2016.
- ^ a b "Juan Luis Cebrián". OpenDemocracy.net. 26 May 2006. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
- ^ "Stocks". Bloomberg. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
- ^ HuffPost (6 August 2012). "Juan Luis Cebrián". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ "Juan Luis Cebrián, PRISA Chairman". PRISA News.
- ^ Muñoz, Ramón (15 November 2017). "Juan Luis Cebrián propone que Manuel Polanco le suceda al frente de PRISA en 2018". El País.
- ^ Herman, Marc. "Spain's most famous paper stumbles amid Catalonia independence crisis". Retrieved 7 April 2024.
- ^ "AEDE se transforma en AMI con Cebrián, Enríquez de Yarza y Méndez Pozo como vicepresidentes". Dircomfidencial.
- ^ "Destituyen a Cebrián como presidente de honor de 'El País'". efe (in European Spanish). 4 April 2024. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
- ^ Arranz, Rubén (6 April 2024). "Juan Luis Cebrián, un jarrón chino que Prisa ha terminado de romper" (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 April 2024.
- ^ "LA SEXTA TV | NOTICIAS – Última hora, Mario Conde, Aznar, Arnaldo Otegi, Atentados en Bruselas, Daesh, Rita Barberá, Cuba, Raúl Castro, Obama, Pablo Iglesias, Albert Rivera". Lasexta.com. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
- ^ "Los 'Papeles de Panamá' desvelan que Imanol Arias creó una sociedad offshore en Niue". 7 April 2016. Archived from the original on 9 April 2016.
- ^ "Juan Luis Cebrián posee el 2% de la petrolera Star Petroleum, una empresa relacionada con paraísos fiscales". 26 April 2016. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016.