journalist Miguel Angel Gozaloformer president of the EFE agency and former director of TVE, died this Wednesday, according to his family.
Miguel Ángel Gozalo (Madrid, November 16, 1938) He led EFE for eight yearsin particular from May 1996, when he was appointed President and General Director of EFE, until 2004, when he was replaced by Álex Grijelmo.
Before, In 1982 he was appointed director of TVE, Later, at the suggestion of the PP, he was a member of the company’s board of directors and was one of the founders of the television academy. EFE
In September this year, the journalist starred in a new episode of “Master of Journalism”, Podcast from the Madrid Press Association (APM), in collaboration with the “la Caixa” Foundation. In the interview conducted by José Antonio Piñero, Gozalo recalled that he was “number one” in his promotion, which included Jesús Hermida, Vázquez Montalbán and his wife Isabel Hernando.
“Journalism will survive because there will always be people who need to be told things differently.”” he said on the podcast, adding: “Journalists now, contrary to what everyone says, are better than when I was there: they know more languages and most of them write very well.”
Gozalo began his professional career at print media such as SP Magazine; the Madrid and Informaciones newspapers, which he directed, and ABC, a newspaper for which he was a correspondent Bonn and Parisaccording to the Madrid Press Association (APM).
In retrospect, In 1975 he made the leap to radio, as news director of Cadena SER and the program “Hora 25”. He later appeared on other radio stations such as COPE and Onda Cero.
As for the medium of television, he directed for a time the news program Editorial Night on the second Spanish television network (TVE) and debate programs such as Derecho a discrepar. In 1982 he was director of TVE for a few months. He was also one of the founders of the Television Academy. In 1966 he was editor-in-chief of Europa Press and from 1996 to 2004 he was President and General Director of Agencia EFE.
