José Luís Restán Martínez (born 1958) is a Spanish journalist and radio broadcaster. He is the controller and editorial director of content and religious programming on radio station

Cadena COPE COPE, an acronym for Cadena de Ondas Populares Españolas ("People's Radiowaves of Spain Network") formerly called Radio Popular, is a Spanish language radio station. It is the second most listened to in Spain's generalist radio. Owned by the S ...

, and is best known for his weekday religious talk show ''El Espejo''.

Early life

Restán was born in Madrid in 1958. He graduated in

civil engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

at the

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 ...

, but instead followed a journalistic career, launching a Spanish edition of the Italian religious magazine ''30 Days''. He later returned to the University of Navarra to study journalism, and in 1990 joined

Broadcasting career

He has been the main religious editor at Cadena COPE and for a while was the editor of news at the broadcaster. He then started to host daily religious news on COPE, one of which, ''El Espejo'', he still hosts to this day. He also led the socioreligious content on COPE between January 2000 and July 2006. He later hosted the weekly programme ''Pueblo en camino'' on COPE's TV channel Popular TV. He also appeared on debate programmes on Trece. He is currently the content director of COPE and leader of its religious programming, and occasionally appears on Trece when its talk shows discuss religious content. He also writes for COPE's online site.

Press

Restán has worked in ''Alfa y omega'', the religious supplement of conservative newspaper ''ABC'', and has written for ''ABC'''s news site. He has also worked on '' Mundo Cristiano'', a family-oriented paper with religious content. With a group of students he founded the magazine ''Páginas para el mes'' in 1996.

References

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