Eduardo González
Next week, the Caja de las Letras of the Instituto Cervantes will receive the legacies of journalist Iñaki Gabilondo and the EFE agency.
Iñaki Gabilondo (San Sebastián, 1942), journalist with more than fifty years of career, will deposit his legacy tomorrow, Monday, after which he will hold a meeting open to the public with Pepa Bueno, director of the newspaper El País, responsible for different news spaces on RTVE and Ondas award for directing the Hoy por hoy program (2019); and Mara Torres, leader for years of early morning radio shows with Hablar por hablar, finalist for the Planeta Prize and recently awarded an Ondas (2023) for her program El Faro.
The three journalists will discuss Gabilondo’s career, interweaving his personal and professional achievements with various relevant moments in the recent history of Spain, such as the attempted coup d’état on February 23 (1981), when he was head of News. of TVE, or the attacks of 11-M (2004), in Madrid.
The next day, the Caja de las Letras will open again to receive the EFE legacy from its president, Miguel Ángel Oliver. In this commemorative event, framed in the celebration of the 85 years of history of the first news agency in Spanish, the director of the Instituto Cervantes, Luis García Montero, will also participate; and on behalf of EFE, Emilio Crespo, former Director of Information and former Director of International, among other positions; Javier Lascuráin, coordinator of the agency’s new style manual, and Paloma Puente, director of Documentation and Archives.
After the deposit of the agency’s legacy, the presentation of the Nuevo Libro del Estilo Urgente (New Urgent Style Book) will take place, a manual co-edited by Cervantes and EFE and coordinated by Javier Lascuráin, with a round table on Artificial Intelligence and its impact on information and practice. media daily, in which journalists and experts in this matter will participate.
Luis García Montero will intervene in both legacies, which will be added to those already carried out previously with the Vocento group and the television program Informe Semanal, “thus consolidating the initiative of the institution that recognizes the work of journalism within the framework of a democratic society and in the construction and reflection of their culture as givers of meaning,” the institute indicated in a press release.
