Ignacio Escolar García (born 20 December 1975 in

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) is a Spanish blogger and journalist. He currently leads the digital newspaper

eldiario.es ''elDiario.es'' is an online newspaper based in Spain. Founded in 2012 and published only in Spanish, it has been available since 18 September 2012. ''eldiario.es'' is managed by Ignacio Escolar, a journalist who was the first editor of '' Púb ...

and he is also a political analyst in radio and television. He was founder and first director of the newspaper '' Público''.

Journalistic career

He began to study journalism at the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...

although he dropped off his studies, beginning his journalistic career in 1995, collaborating in newspapers such as ''

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'' and '' El Mundo'' and magazines such as ''

Muy Interesante ''Muy Interesante'' (meaning ''Very Interesting'' in English) is a monthly popular science magazine which deals with fun facts and current events, such as the development of nanotechnology, physics, biology, astronomy, genetics, neurosciences, ...

'', ''

Rolling Stone ''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first kno ...

'', ''

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'' and '' Quo''. In 1999 he joined in the nightly news of

Telecinco Telecinco is a Spanish free-to-air television channel operated by Mediaset España. The channel was previously known as Tele 5, because it had first begun its experimental transmissions on 10 March 1989, and a year later, it was officially launc ...

, as responsible for ''El navegante'', a section of the Internet broadcast daily. In 2004 he worked as a media consultant in

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and

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

. Back in Spain, he was named coordinator of the web of news of Telecinco. He left this post to become deputy director of

La Voz de Almería ''La Voz de Almería'' is a Spanish language local daily newspaper published in Almería, Spain. It is one of the leading papers of the region. History and profile ''La Voz de Almería'' was established in 1939 as ''Yugo'', but its title was cha ...

, ''Cadena SER Almería'', and ''Localia Almería'', which would make him also an opinion journalist in programs or

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s such as ''La Ventana'' and ''

Hoy por hoy ''Hoy por hoy'' is a Spanish radio program, produced by the news department of the Cadena SER. It is the most listened-to radio program in Spain with an average of about three and a half million listeners a day and is considered the most listened- ...

'' of the

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. He returned to Madrid to be the first director of the newspaper '' Público'', which he led from its founding in September 2007 until his dismissal on 13 January 2009. From that date until March 2012 he was a daily columnist in ''Público''. In this year Escolar left this job to establish the online newspaper

. He has also taken part in political

s of TVE,

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and Veo7, as '' Los Desayunos de TVE'', ''La noche en 24 horas'' or ''59 segundos'' (2007–2012), ''La vuelta al mundo'' (2009–2011) in Veo7, ''Las mañanas de Cuatro'' (2013–2014 ) with Jesús Cintora, or ''El gran debate'' (2012–2013). He was a regular contributor to ''

'' of

until he was fired, in April 2016, through a direct order from its headman,

Juan Luis Cebrián Juan Luis Cebrián Echarri (born 30 October 1944) is a Spanish journalist and businessman, the co-founder of ''El País'', and CEO of Prisa, a Spanish media conglomerate. Cebrián was born in Madrid in 1944. He studied philosophy at the Unive ...

. The reason was that

, paper that Escolar rules, linked Cebrián to the "

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", albeit indirectly. So Cebrián decided to take legal action against eldiario.es, ''

El Confidencial ''El Confidencial'' is a Spanish-language general-information digital newspaper located in Spain, specializing in economic, financial and political news. It was established as an online newspaper in 2001. Its target readership is professional ...

'' and

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. Escolar has an exclusive contract with LaSexta collaborating in the main programs of this TV network: ''Al rojo vivo'' (2015–present), ''Más vale tarde'' and ''La Sexta noche'' (2015–present). Escolar also collaborates with international media as ''

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'' in the UK and '' Clarín'' in Argentina.

Blogger

As blogger Escolar began his career in 2001 editing spanishpop.net, page dedicated to

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which remained active until 2006. In 2003 began Escolar.net, a blog initially destined to Internet today, but later would focus on current political events. Escolar.net is considered the most followed Spanish blog about politics. In this blog is also housed the Escolar.net wiki, which has served as a platform for various social movements like ''Movimiento por una vivienda digna'' (''Movement for decent housing''), ''Manifiesto en defensa de los derechos fundamentales en Internet'' (''Manifesto in defense of fundamental rights on the Internet''), among others. Also from 2003 Escolar collaborates in the cultural blog Elastico.net.

Musician

Ignacio Escolar is also a musician of alternative style. He was a member of the group

Meteosat, and has also recorded several songs of

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

under the name of ''Decodek'', which are available under a free license.

Writer

Along with his father, Arsenio Escolar, also a journalist, he published in September 2010 an essay: ''La nación inventada, una historia differente de Castilla'' (''The invented nation, a different history of Castile''), where they review the medieval history of Castile and the origin of its founding myths. He is also author of the novella ''31 noches'' (''31 Nights'') which was serialized in the newspaper ''

Public In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...

'' in the summer of 2009. This book was published into the collection "Conspicua" of ed. "Suma de Letras". He is also coauthor of ''Reacciona'', published by ed. Aguilar. Libros publicados *Escolar, Ignacio; Escolar, Arsenio (2010). ''La nación inventada. Una historia diferente de Castilla''. Madrid: Ediciones Península. . *Varios Autores (2011). ''Reacciona''. Madrid: Aguilar. . *Escolar, Ignacio (2012). ''31 noches''. Suma de Letras. . *Escolar, Ignacio (2012). ''La crisis en 100 apuntes''. Debate. . *Escolar, Ignacio; Escolar, Arsenio (2012). ''El justiciero cruel''. Península. .

Awards

* "García Márquez" Award of Journalism (2018). * First winner Premio de Periodismo Digital "José Manuel Porquet" for the article "Por favor, pirateen mis canciones". * Premio "Mujeres progresistas", for not to accept advertisements of prostitution in the newspaper ''Público'' and consider NGOs as information sources. * Premio "Nicolás Salmerón" of Human Rights, in the category of Communication, for his defense of Human Rights. * His blog, Escolar.net, winner of the award of the web Bitacoras.com in 2008 and 2009 for the best political blog.

Personal life

He is the son of the journalist Arsenio Escolar, who headed the free daily '' 20 minutos''. In religion, he has declared himself as an

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

Controversies

Escolar condemned the criticism of Ana Julia Quezada by saying "all the hate speech against Ana Julia is due to the fact that she is an immigrant, black and a woman”. Ana Julia Quezada was convicted in the murder of an eight-year-old boy (Gabriel Cruz)

References

External links

Escolar.net
personal blog (politics)
Cataloguing data in the Blog escolar.net
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