Fidel Cano Correa

Fidel Cano Correa is a Colombian journalist, born 23 November 1965 in Bogotá. Since May 2004 he is the publisher of ''El Espectador'', Colombia's oldest newspaper.

Cano is a great-grandson of Fidel Cano Gutiérrez, (founder of ''El Espectador''), and a nephew to Guillermo Cano Isaza. He received his primary and secondary education at Gimnasio Moderno, majored in Philosophy from the University of Los Andes, earned a degree in International Relations from New York University and a Master of Science degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

Between 1987 and 1995, Cano Correa worked at ''El Espectador'' as sports writer, lifestyle and economy editor, and correspondent in the United States. Later he would become press attaché at the Colombian embassy in Washington, D. C. He was political editor at '' El Tiempo'' between 1998 and 2000.

In 2000, Cano Correa returned to his family's newspaper as general editor. In 2001, ''El Espectador'' was forced to downgrade to a weekly, circulating on weekends only. Nevertheless, Cano Correa, who became publisher in 2004, led a journalistic and economic recovery which allowed ''El Espectador'' to resume daily publishing in May 2008.

In 2006, Cano Correa was named Journalist of the Year at the Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar.

Cano Correa is also active on Twitter, where he tweets about what will be published the next day in the print edition of ''El Espectador''. One of his posts, where he referred to the redesign which ''El Tiempo'' would unveil in early October 2010, was "poorly welcomed" by its directors, according to ''Semana''.

References

External links

*
El Espectador
*
Fidel Cano Correa at Twitter (@fidelcanoco)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cano Correa, Fidel
1965 births
Living people
People from Bogotá
Colombian journalists
Male journalists