The César Manrique Foundation (FCM) will host next Thursday, September 5, at 7:00 p.m., at its headquarters in Taro de Tahíche, the conversation between journalists Leila Guerriero and Jesús Maraña entitled 'Present and future of journalism: digitization, information, communication and training of public opinion'. The meeting will be led by Alberto Acosta and Teresa Cárdenes, also journalists. This activity is part of the centenary of the birth of César Manrique that the institution that bears his name has been celebrating since April 24 and will continue to do so until the same date in 2020.
The dialogue between Guerriero and Maraña is the last conversation scheduled within the cycle 'Democracy and journalism in its labyrinth', which began with a meeting between Ignacio Escolar and Olga Rodríguez, led by Jazael Ascanio and Javier Durán under the title 'Information and disinformation. Post-truth'; and continued with another conversation between Fernando Vallespín, Luisa del Rosario and Francisco Pomares around 'Populisms and democracy'.
'Democracy and journalism in its labyrinth' is proposed as a series of meetings between two journalists or opinion columnists in which current socio-political and communication issues are addressed, moderated or guided by two other journalists from the Islands.
About Leila Guerriero and Jesús Maraña
Leila Guerriero is a journalist and has worked for various media in Latin America and Europe such as 'La Nación' and 'Rolling Stone' of Argentina; 'El País' of Spain; 'Gatopardo' of Mexico; and 'El Mercurio' of Chile, among others. She performs editing tasks for Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales de Chile and is editor for Latin America of the magazine 'Gatopardo' and directs the collection 'Mirada crónica', from Tusquets Argentina publishing house. In addition, she is a teacher at the New Ibero-American Journalism Foundation, founded by Gabriel García Márquez, and is part of its governing council.
She is also the author of several books: 'Los suicidas del fin del mundo' (2004), 'Una historia sencilla' (2013) or 'Opus Gelber' (2019), her latest publication, among other works. She has won several awards such as the CEMEX New Ibero-American Journalism Foundation Award, the González Ruano journalism award, awarded by the Mapfre Foundation and the Blue Metropolis Grand Prix, which is awarded in Canada.
Jesús Maraña is also a journalist and since 2013 he has been editorial director of the new digital newspaper 'infoLibre.es' and the monthly paper 'tintaLibre', an independent journalism project promoted by journalists from different media and associated with the French digital 'Mediapart'.
He has worked for various media such as Televisión Española, Antena 3 Radio, Diario Ya, the magazine 'Tiempo' and the newspaper 'El Mundo' and has been editorial director of magazines of Grupo Zeta, a position from which he coordinated more than forty weekly and monthly publications, including 'Interviú', 'Tiempo', 'Man', 'Woman', 'Viajar', 'You' or 'PC Plus'. Between 2010 and 2012 he served as director of the newspaper 'Público'.
Maraña has participated for years in political talk shows on radio and television and currently participates in the debate programs 'Al Rojo Vivo', 'Más Vale Tarde', 'La Sexta Noche', 'Los Desayunos de TVE', 'Hoy por Hoy' and 'La Brújula'.
