Manuel Aznar y Acedo (

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, 15 September 1916 – 12 January 2001) was a Spanish

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ...

and

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Life

He was the son of diplomat and journalist

Manuel Aznar Zubigaray Manuel Aznar Zubigaray (Etxalar, Navarre, Spain, 1893 – Madrid, Spain, 1975) was a diplomat under the Franco regime and one of the most important journalists of the 20th century in Spain. Biography He was director of some of the most import ...

. His maternal uncle was footballer

Domingo Acedo Domingo Gómez-Acedo y Villanueva (6 June 1898 – 14 September 1980), also known as Txomin, was a Spanish footballer who played primarily as a left-sided forward and sometimes as a left back. Acedo was in the Spain national team that compet ...

. He was married to Elvira López y Valdivieso and had four children, including politician, the President of the Government of Spain (May 1996 to August 2004) José María Aznar. He was a member of the

falangist Falangism ( es, falangismo) was the political ideology of two political parties in Spain that were known as the Falange, namely first the Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FE de las JONS) and afterwards the Fal ...

movement and served during the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, link ...

as an officer in charge of propaganda for the

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army. After the war, he worked for

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(1942–1962) and

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(1962–1965) and was appointed co-director of the department of radio broadcasting for the

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(1964–1967). He also founded the newspapers ''Hoja Oficial de Alicante'', ''Avance'' and ''Levante''. In 1967, he became the first director of the ''Escuela Oficial de Radiodifusión y Televisión'', the official school of radio and television broadcasting.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aznar Acedo, Manuel 1916 births 2001 deaths People from Bilbao Basque journalists Spanish army officers Spanish military personnel of the Spanish Civil War (National faction) Spanish radio personalities 20th-century Spanish journalists