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Juan Luis Cebrián Echarri (born 30 October 1944)[1] is a Spanish journalist and businessman, the co-founder of El País. He was CEO of Prisa, a Spanish media conglomerate, from 2012 to 2017, until ousted by Joseph Oughourlian.
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Juan Luis Cebrián | |
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Chairman of Prisa | |
In office 2012–2017 | |
Vice president of the Asociación de Medios de Información | |
Assumed office May 2017 | |
Seat V of the Real Academia Española | |
Assumed office 18 May 1997[lower-alpha 1] | |
Preceded by | Emilio García Gómez |
Personal details | |
Born | Juan Luis Cebrián Echarri 30 October 1944 Madrid, Spain |
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Alma mater | Universidad Complutense |
Occupation | Journalist, business and writer |
Cebrián was born in Madrid in 1944.[2] He studied philosophy at the Universidad Complutense, and earned a bachelor's degree from the Escuela Oficial de Periodismo.[3]
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.[4]
He was the founding editor of the daily newspaper El País, in which he edited from 1976 and 1988.[2] Between 1986 and 1988 he was the chairman of the International Press Institute (I.P.I) .[citation needed]
In December 1996, Cebrián was elected to Seat V of the Real Academia Española, and took up his seat in May 1997.[1]
He was chairman of PRISA from 2012 to 2017.[5][6] Details of his dismissal were not clear in 2017.[7] Cebrián left all his executive positions in PRISA on May 21, 2018.[citation needed]
Since May 2017, Cebrian has been vice president of the Asociación de Medios de Información (AMI), chaired by Javier Moll.[8]
In April 2024, Cebrián was dismissed as honorary president of El País, after he signed on to the digital periodical "The Objective".[9][10]
Cebrián managed the news service Televisión Española.[citation needed]
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).[citation needed]
He has been the only Hispanic academic member of the Bilderberg Club and the only Spanish-speaking member with executive functions in that organization.[citation needed]
Between 1980 and 2016 Cebrián published 19 books in Spanish consisting of fiction and essay based writing, including the first part of his memoirs.[citation needed]
Cebrián has been mentioned in the Panama Papers.[11][dead link] La Sexta 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.[12][13]
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