"A newspaper tells you things that you did not know and that I find fascinating," emphasizes Kiko Llaneras.
EL PAÍS data specialist, has struggled for a year against the difficulty of accessing the figures and having a homogeneous criterion on the part of the Administrations for their treatment.
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When the coronavirus began to arrive in Spain, the impending emergency had to be transmitted.
"Our readers wanted to see the numbers for themselves," he defends.
So they were forced to "integrate the data or the visualization of the data with those minimal elements of analysis that would allow readers to draw their own conclusions, but knowing all the traps that are around the numbers."
The analyst has established, in each article and analysis, a contract with the readers, a relationship of trust.
“Sometimes they will agree with what I say, other times they will not agree;
other times they will like it or they will not like it, but if they trust that what I say is done with my best intention… That is the perfect agreement ”, he maintains.
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