Jesús Ángel Cintora Pérez (born 27 January 1977) is a Spanish

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and

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from

Ágreda Ágreda is a municipality located in the Soria (province), province of Soria, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. Ágreda is the regional services center in the Northeast of the Soria (province), province of Soria. Its abund ...

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Training and career

Cintora studied Journalism, in the field of Audiovisual Communication. He received his BA degree from

University of Navarra The University of Navarra is a private Catholic research university located on the southeast border of Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. It was founded in 1952 by Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, the founder of '' Opus Dei'', as a corporat ...

in 1999. He has been

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at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His first works were developed on the radio station

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Soria Soria () is a municipality and a Spanish city, located on the Douro river in the east of the autonomous community of Castile and León and capital of the province of Soria. Its population is 38,881 ( INE, 2017), 43.7% of the provincial populatio ...

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and

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. He also worked for TVE Navarra, El Mundo, Marca, and

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. Between 2002 and 2006 he was the coordinator of ''

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''.

Radio

From 1996 to 2000, his first works in this area were developed on the radio station

of Soria, Pamplona, Zaragoza and Madrid. In 2000 he was a member of the team that started digital broadcasts in Radio Marca. In 2000 he returned to Cadena SER Madrid. Between 2002 and 2006 he was the coordinator of the program ''

'', directed first by

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and then Carles Francino since 2005. He then joined ''Hora 14'' and ''Hora 25, fin de semana'' until March 2011, when he began to present the morning program of Cadena SER. On 11 November, the same year he was fired in a new restructuring of information services of this radio network. Days later, Cintora himself confirmed it by

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Television

His first works were for

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of Navarra, Navarra-Canal 4, and Canal Satélite Digital. Between 2011 and 2013 Cintora participated as a political analyst on several television shows in Spain, such as ''The debate de la 1'' on TVE (

) (2012-2013), ''La noche del Canal 24 horas'' on TVE (2012-2013), ''El programa de Ana Rosa'' (2011-2013) and ''El gran debate'' (2012-2013) on

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 laun ...

, ''De hoy a mañana'' (2012-2013) and ''El cascabel'' (2013) on 13TV, ''Alto y claro'' in

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and ''La vuelta al mundo'' (2009-2011) on Veo7, and ''Una mirada al mundo'' (2012) on Discovery MAX. Since 6 May 2013, Cintora replaced Marta Fernández presenting the morning TV program ''Las mañanas de Cuatro'' in

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. The first edition of the program hosted by Cintora, in 2013 was attended by Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón,

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and

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, all of them before reaching a decisive role in the so-called new politics in Spain. Between 24 November and 8 December 2013, he hosted the new informative called ''The Wall'' (in English). On 19 June 2014, he was part of the

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coverage on the occasion of the proclamation of the King

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, along with journalists

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and Pedro Piqueras. On 27 March 2015

announced his resignation as presenter of ''Las mañanas de

''. An official statement claimed 'Mediaset has the clear objective to inform, not form, audience through a pluralism which give voice to absolutely all political opinions and with presenters who treat information objectively'. Cintora however continued on other projects with Mediaset. Numerous sources reported that Mediaset had received political pressure from the government of the Partido Popular to dismiss Cintora for his usual criticism of the government, something which Cintora himself defended. In November 2015 ''Las mañanas de Cuatro'' received the important ''

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'' ndas Award'for opening a stable time band in television today, for the evolution that its successive directors and conductors have contributed and the politrld of evictions and

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s and also cutbacks in Health and Education. In 2016 he leads ''Cintora al pie de calle''.

Press

He got his break in the media with Diario de Soria and El Mundo. Between 2011 and 2012 he worked for with the Spanish edition of

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. Between 2011 and 2013 he collaborated with Interviú. Since 2015 he has written a weekly opinion piece on eldiario.es, an online newspaper edited by Ignacio Escolar.

Books

On 14 April 2015, Jesús Cintora published in Editorial Espasa-Calpe ''La hora de la verdad'' 'The Moment of Truth'' It is the first time that leaders of the new generation in politics, like Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón,

or Pablo Casado Blanco were interviewed for a book. Some of the characters that the journalist signed for television, such as

Miguel Ángel Revilla Miguel Ángel Revilla Roiz (born 23 January 1943) is a Spanish politician, economist and bank employee. He served as 7th President of Cantabria from 2003 to 2011 and as the 9th president from 2015 to 2023, making him the longest serving holder ...

, Sor Lucía Caram and

Pedro J. Ramírez Pedro José Ramírez Codina (born 26 March 1952), widely known as Pedro J. Ramírez, is a Spanish journalist. When he was appointed to manage ''Diario 16'' at the age of 28, he became Spain's youngest editor of a national newspaper. In 1989 he ...

also participated. The foreword is by

, who describes the author in this way: 'Jesús Cintora, a young journalist of Soria whom I met on Cadena SER. His personality and flair were obvious. His informality, his brazenness and expressive simplicity fits like a glove with the newly released demands of transparency, freshness and audacity'.

References

External links

Program ''Matinal SER''
in la Cadena Ser
Program ''Hoy por Hoy''
in la Cadena Ser
Jesús Cintora in Ruta Quetzal

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