María Jubilia Fernández Bustamante (11 September 1938 – 10 July 2014), better known as Juby Bustamante, was a Spanish journalist.

Career

The daughter of sports journalist Agustín "Langarita" Fernández, Juby Bustamante started her career at the Cantabrian newspaper ' in her native

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, but soon moved to Madrid where she wrote for '. She specialized in cultural journalism, although she worked in other fields, becoming a distinguished voice of the

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. In the words of journalist

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, "she was a fascinating narrator and had a strong literary style." She worked at the daily ', closed in 1971 by the dictatorship of General Franco. From there she went to the magazine ''

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'' where she was part of the founding team of ''

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''. She left the newspaper in 1982 to join the

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's press officer during the

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administration, where she stayed until 1988. With the arrival of

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to the ministry, she became its cabinet director. After her retirement in 1991, she was appointed director of communication for the Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation where she remained until her retirement in 2006. She was the wife of journalist and mother of two children, Miguel and Andrea.

Acknowledgments

In 2011, during the second government of

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, she was awarded the .

References

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