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Jan Martínez Ahrens, director of America and Miguel Jiménez, deputy director

2020-09-26T23:41:38.062Z


Mónica Ceberio, deputy director, expands her functions and will be responsible for the Drafting. Andrea Rizzi, new Deputy Director of Opinion and Javier Lafuente, from America


The director of EL PAÍS, Javier Moreno, has appointed Jan Martínez Ahrens (Paris, 1966) as the new director for America and Miguel Jiménez (Madrid, 1968) as the new deputy director.

Martínez Ahrens, until now deputy director, will be in charge, from Mexico, of coordinating and promoting the American edition of the newspaper, with more than 70 journalists and delegations in Mexico City, São Paulo and Washington.

Jiménez, for his part, until now director of the economic newspaper

Cinco Días

, becomes the deputy director of the newspaper together with Mónica Ceberio (Bilbao, 1973) and Borja Echevarría (Bilbao, 1968), who continue in their positions.

Jiménez and Ceberio will be focused on information management and Echevarría on digital strategy.

Mónica Ceberio, who is expanding her functions, will be the Editor-in-Chief and informatively she will deal mainly with the weekend newspaper, background issues, research and special projects.

Miguel Jiménez will focus on daily information, in addition to continuing to coordinate the economic information of PRISA Noticias.

Borja Echevarría will be responsible for the digital transformation and the development of visual narratives, data, audio, video, design,

newsletters,

social networks or new projects.

Jan Martínez Ahrens has a degree in Philosophy, a master's degree in Journalism from UAM-EL PAÍS and received classes from Gabriel García Márquez at the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI).

He also completed a management development program at IESE Business School and is a

fellow

of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

He worked at

Diario 16

and entered EL PAÍS in 1992.

First in the Valencian Community and then in Madrid, as events editor and section chief.

Later, he went to the Society area, where he was editor-in-chief.

In this period, great emphasis was placed on the coverage of gender violence and social rights.

In 2006 he was appointed deputy director of the Sunday edition, and in 2012, of General Information.

At this stage, he participated in the obtaining, coordination and publication in EL PAÍS of the 250,000 secret State Department documents leaked by Wikileaks, and later the

Guantanamo Papers,

more than 700 confidential reports on the harassment of prisoners in the US base.

In 2014, he coordinated the

Chinaleaks case

in EL PAÍS

,

where, based on a documentary base obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the massive use of tax havens by the Chinese communist elite was uncovered.

That same year, he became a correspondent in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

In this area he covered the tragedy of Ayotzinapa and the escape and capture of El Chapo.

He was also the executive producer of an animated story about gangs in Honduras, winner of the Gabriel García Márquez Award for Innovation, awarded by the FNPI.

In early 2017 he was appointed chief correspondent in the United States, where he followed the pulse of the Trump presidency.

That same year, the International Press Club awarded him the award for the best Spanish correspondent abroad.

Since June 2018, he has held the position of deputy director in Madrid, where, in full transformation to the successful digital subscription model, he has directed the coverage of the news, including two general elections and the enormous informational and editorial challenge that the pandemic has posed.

Economy

Miguel Jiménez has a degree in Law and Economic and Business Sciences from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE) and in Political Sciences from the UNED and a master's degree in Journalism from the UAM-EL PAÍS School.

He took an executive development program from IESE and a digital transformation course from ESADE and the Singularity University in Silicon Valley.

He took his first steps as a journalist in the International section of EL PAÍS, in the official newspaper of the Assembly of the IMF and the World Bank in Madrid and in the magazine

Dinero.

In 1996 he joined

Cinco Días,

where he was head of the Markets section, editor-in-chief of the Weekend edition and of the Companies section, and deputy director.

Jiménez joined EL PAÍS in 2006 as editor-in-chief of the Economy section and the Business supplement.

In 2015 he was appointed Deputy Director of Information.

Since 2018 he was director of

Cinco Días

and deputy director in charge of the Economics area of ​​EL PAÍS.

He has interviewed the main leaders of Spanish economic policy during that period and large Spanish and international businessmen.

He has coordinated coverage of the Great Recession and the economic crisis of the coronavirus.

Jiménez was also part of the EL PAÍS team that participated in the analysis and publication of the documents leaked by Wikileaks, with special emphasis on those with economic or business content.

He was also among the editors who analyzed and published Bárcenas' papers in 2012.

Likewise, Andrea Rizzi (Rome, 1975), current editor-in-chief of Internacional, has been appointed deputy director of Opinion, and Javier Lafuente (Santander, 1983), until now a correspondent in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, will be the new deputy director for America.

The four new appointments have been endorsed by the drafting by a large majority.

Andrea Rizzi has a degree in Law from the La Sapienza University of Rome, a master's degree in European Union Law from the Institute of European Studies of the Free University of Brussels and a master's degree in journalism from UAM-EL PAÍS.

After briefly practicing law, he began his professional career in journalism joining EL PAÍS in 2005 as a reporter for the Sunday section.

In 2007 he joined the International section, of which he has been editor-in-chief since 2014. He has covered information for the newspaper in more than 20 countries.

He was a member of the EL PAÍS team that published the secret WikiLeaks cables and in recent years has been in charge of interviews with international political leaders.

Since January 2019, he has published a weekly column dedicated to European affairs.

Javier Lafuente graduated in Journalism, began his career at the Europa Press agency.

In 2006 he studied the Master in Journalism UAM-EL PAÍS.

In EL PAÍS it has passed through the Basque Country delegation and the National, Closure, Sports and America Edition sections.

In 2015, he became a correspondent in Colombia, Venezuela and the Andean Region, where he covered the peace process between the FARC and the Government of Colombia.

In 2017 he was appointed correspondent in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

Source: elparis

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