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The Board of Directors of EL PAÍS has unanimously ratified this Monday the appointment of Pepa Bueno as director of the newspaper, replacing Javier Moreno.
The change in the direction of the newspaper will take effect on Tuesday.
In accordance with the Statute of the Editorial Board of EL PAÍS, the appointment was submitted to a consultative vote of the staff, which supported the appointment in a majority way.
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Pepa Bueno, new director of EL PAÍS
Pepa Bueno was born in Badajoz in 1963. She has a degree in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid. She began her career in the news services of Radio Nacional de España in Extremadura and, later, was head of news at RNE in Aragón and Madrid. In 1991 he joined RTVE to direct the regional news, first in Andalusia and then in Madrid. In September 1996, she was appointed deputy director of the current affairs program
Gente
.
Eight years later he will be in charge of
Los Desayunos
de TVE, combining his responsibility with different participations in other programs of the same chain. In 2009 he assumed the direction and presentation of the second edition
of the TVE
newscast
, for which he obtained various recognitions, until in 2012 he joined the program
Hoy por Hoy
on Cadena SER, maintaining the audience leadership throughout his stage at the helm of the same.
In 2019, she was appointed director of the
Hora 25
night news program
. During these years, Pepa Bueno has also collaborated in Telecinco and Cuatro programs. Bueno has combined his activities on television and radio with multiple collaborations in the press such as EL PAÍS, in which he currently writes, as well as in
Diario 16, El Periódico de Catalunya
and
La Vanguardia
, among others.
Throughout her long professional career, Pepa Bueno has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, among others, the Golden Microphone, the Media Tenor Award for the Best Newspaper in the World, Ondas Award, Francisco Cerecedo Award for Journalism, Journalism Award European Salvador de Madariaga, Manu Leguineche Award for International Journalism and the Agustín Merello Award from the Cádiz Press Association.
Javier Moreno, who will continue to be linked to the project, has directed the newspaper for the last year with great success.
Moreno has been a decisive driver of the newspaper's digital transformation and especially of the new subscription model, which in just one year has reached almost 110,000 digital subscribers.
The Board of Directors thanked Javier Moreno for his dedication and professionalism.
