Juan Luis Cebrián Echarri (born 30 October 1944)
is a Spanish journalist and businessman, the co-founder of ''
El País
(; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA.
It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in ...
''. He was CEO of
Prisa, a Spanish media conglomerate, from 2012 to 2017, until ousted by
Joseph Oughourlian.
Early life and education
Cebrián was born in
Madrid
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in 1944.
He studied philosophy at the
Universidad Complutense
The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...
, and earned a bachelor's degree from the
Escuela Oficial de Periodismo.
Career
He was one of the founding members of the political magazine
Cuadernos para el Dialogo and worked from 1963 to 1975 as a senior worker and deputy editor of daily newspaper ''Pueblo and Informaciones de Madrid''.
He was the founding editor of the daily newspaper
El País
(; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA.
It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in ...
, in which he edited from 1976 and 1988.
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Between 1986 and 1988 he was the chairman of the International Press Institute (I.P.I) .
In December 1996, Cebrián was elected to Seat ''V'' of the ]Real Academia Española
The Royal Spanish Academy (, ; ) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, and is affiliated with national language academies in 22 other Hispanopho ...
, and took up his seat in May 1997.[
He was chairman of PRISA from 2012 to 2017.
Details of his dismissal were not clear in 2017.]Televisión Española
(acronym TVE, branded tve, "Spanish Television") is Spain's national state-owned public television broadcaster and the oldest regular television service in the country. It was also the first regular television service in Equatorial Guinea.
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.
Various international media have considered Cebrián one of the ten most influential Spaniards in Spain and Latin America for 44 years (from 1976 to 2019).
He has been the only Hispanic academic member of the Bilderberg Club and the only Spanish-speaking member with executive functions in that organization.
Between 1980 and 2016 Cebrián published 19 books in Spanish consisting of fiction and essay based writing, including the first part of his memoirs
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.
Controversies
Cebrián has been mentioned in the Panama Papers
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.
La Sexta
La Sexta (; ; stylised as laSexta) is a privately owned Spanish free-to-air television channel that was founded on 18 March 2001 as Beca TV and began broadcasting on 1 April 2001. By 21 July 2003, the channel ran into debt and was shut down, bu ...
revealed in 2016, that he owned 2% of Star Petroleum, an oil corporation with offshore tax havens. After the publication, he decided to take legal action against La Sexta.
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1944 births
Living people
Complutense University of Madrid alumni
Members of the Royal Spanish Academy
People from Madrid
El País editors
People named in the Panama Papers