Antonio García Ferreras (born 20 September 1966) is a Spanish journalist and television presenter.

Biography

Antonio García Ferreras was born in León on 20 September 1966. He earned a degree in Information Sciences (journalism) from the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

. He began his journalistic career in

radio broadcasting Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio signal, audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a lan ...

, initially working in

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and then

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, also being destined as a

war correspondent A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war, war zone. War correspondence stands as one of journalism's most important and impactful forms. War correspondents operate in the most conflict-ridden parts of the wor ...

. After seven years helming the newscast department of

Cadena Ser La Cadena SER (the SER Network) is a Spanish radio network established in 1924, with a regular listenership of 4,139,000 reported in 2018. The acronym SER stands for Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión (Spanish Broadcasting Company). Cadena SE ...

, he served as the director of the aforementioned radio station from 2001 to 2004, when he was appointed as

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. In 2006, he became the director of the editorial and newscast department of television station

LaSexta La Sexta (; ; stylised as laSexta) is a privately owned Spanish free-to-air television channel that was founded on 18 March 2001 as Beca TV and began broadcasting on 1 April 2001. By 21 July 2003, the channel ran into debt and was shut down, bu ...

. Since 2011 he has also hosted La Sexta's political show '.

Controversies

Ferrerasgate

In 2022, in light of the content of unveiled recordings featuring a conversation with José Manuel Villarejo, he was accused of journalistic misconduct for openly spreading libelous information against Pablo Iglesias and Podemos despite allegedly knowing it was fabricated news in advance, telling Villarejo that he was going with the report originally created by

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in the tabloid ''

Okdiario ''Okdiario'' is a Spanish digital newspaper founded in September 2015 by the journalist Eduardo Inda. Its editorial ideology is aligned with neoliberalism and Spanish nationalism. The newspaper's motto is ''El sitio de los inconformistas'' ("The ...

'' about a so-called bank account in the

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Personal life

He is in a relationship with journalist Ana Pastor, with whom he has had one child.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferreras, Antonio García 1966 births Living people Complutense University of Madrid alumni Spanish television presenters Spanish radio journalists Real Madrid CF LaSexta Cadena SER People from León, Spain