The Government has proposed the former Secretary of State for Communication Miguel Ángel Oliver as the new president of the Efe news agency, after dismissing the current one this Wednesday morning, also journalist Gabriela Cañas, a dismissal advanced by Vozpópuli and confirmed by Cañas herself to EL PAÍS. Cañas was appointed by the Pedro Sánchez Executive in 2020. Oliver was Secretary of State for Communication in the first Sánchez Executive, from 2018 to 2021, and before that he was editor and presenter of the television program News Four. Previously, he worked at Cadena SER. Now, the candidate to preside over the largest information agency in Spanish must appear before a parliamentary commission in Congress, which will have to rule on his suitability for the position.
Oliver (Madrid, 1963) has a degree in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1983 he joined SER, where he worked until 2005, first in the morning news teams and in the Madrid newsroom, and then as director of the news program Hora 20 and deputy director of the nighttime program. Hour 25, from 1997 to 2000. That year he began directing the program Forum and he also served as editor-in-chief of the local information section of Radio Madrid, a job that he simultaneously replaced with Iñaki Gabilondo on the morning program. Day by day. He then moved to television, first to Localia TV and then, in 2007, to Cuatro, where he directed and presented the weekend news program and, in 2014, the daily edition at eight in the afternoon, until his appointment as Secretary of State in June 2018. After leaving that position in 2021, he returned to Mediaset, the owner of Cuatro, to lead the video podcast Let’s see if we found out.
During his term as Secretary of State, Oliver directed generic criticism at the journalists who covered the information from La Moncloa, whom he blamed for showing “a sick tendency” for asking questions and being “activists”, words that he later qualified. The informants had complained about the few appearances of the President of the Government before the media and that the questions they could ask him were limited. In 2018, the journalist took the famous photographs of Pedro Sánchez with sunglasses in the Falcon, which were the subject of numerous analyses, jokes and some controversy.
The deputy spokesperson of the PP in Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, has harshly criticized Oliver’s appointment. In a message on “Like to give them the CGPJ.”
After being proposed by the Executive, Oliver has to be appointed director of the Efe Agency by the State Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI), owner of the public agency. Afterwards, according to stipulates the law of senior positions, The Government will submit his candidacy to Congress, where Oliver will have to appear before the Constitutional Commission, which will issue an opinion on his appointment, determine if he is suitable for the position and rule out conflict of interest in the exercise of the position, before being definitively appointed as president of the information company.
Gabriela Cañas (Cuenca, 66 years old), who has spent most of her career at EL PAÍS, was the first woman to head the public agency, created 84 years ago, with more than 2,000 professionals of 60 nationalities and issuing information from 180 cities in 110 countries. “It has been a privilege to hold this position. I am eternally grateful to those who made it possible and with the wish that Efe continues to work just as well. It is a great company with enormous professionals,” the journalist declared. Gabriela Cañas replaced journalist Fernando Garea, appointed in 2018, in the position in 2020.
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The appointment of Cañas as president of Efe was known in February 2020, but it became effective in May of that same year. She thus became the first woman to direct the first news agency in Spanish and the fourth in the world, which distributes almost three million news items a year to more than two thousand media outlets. The former president of Efe has a degree in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and she did her first work as a reporter in the Cadiz Newspaper and Information. Most of her professional career has been spent at the newspaper El PAÍS, where she has been head of the Madrid and Society sections, correspondent in Brussels and Paris, and editorial writer. She was a founding member of the magazine The balloon, of the PRISA group, and general director of International Information at the Secretary of State for Communication between 2006 and 2008, with the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. In 2011 she was part of the commission for the modernization of legal language, whose report was submitted to the Government. After her return to El PAÍS, she joined the editorial board and served as deputy director of the UAM-El PAÍS School of Journalism.
As a writer, she has published a story for children, The little invisible ones, and in October 2011 he published the novel towers of fire (Roca Editorial). In 2002 she was awarded the Women in the European Union award, awarded by the European Commission; and in 2011 with the Meridiana Award, in the category of Initiative in the media or advertising.
His journalistic work has been especially focused on social issues. In 1995 she covered the World Women’s Conference, held in Beijing and organized by the United Nations. Five years later she witnessed the New York summit. A declared feminist, Cañas is also a convinced Europeanist. During her time as a correspondent in Brussels (2000-2005) she covered the enlargement of the EU, which went from 15 members to 27, and closely followed the negotiations that culminated in the major reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). ).
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