• Rosa María Mateo, without Torrespaña and with supervision
  • Enric Hernández. To direct El Periódico to control the News of RTVE
  • RTVE: a "super president" with all the power

Almudena Ariza leans aside and an insoslayable gap is visible in the nucleus of public chain information. The one that had been designated as director of TVE News has submitted her resignation. "My candidacy has been approved, but by a majority that I do not consider sufficient, " he said in a message sent to his colleagues through the iNews system, usually used for news editing.

The journalist has come across a copy that does not endorse it as she would like; This has been demonstrated in a referendum with little participation, organized by the Information Council. Despite overcoming the vote and lacking binding nature, Ariza leaves.

The exit leaves a gap between Rosa María Mateo, proposed by the PSOE as the sole provisional administrator, and a wording that in recent times has distanced itself from the single provisional administrator. These differences have caused, first, the signing of Enric Hernández, as coordinator of radio, television and internet content; and, subsequently, they have sentenced Alegría, who should leave office on January 1. However, Mateo has run out of a substitute.

The chosen one already realized last Wednesday of the difficulties that are presented to her, when she gave her first speech in Torrespaña; He then placed special emphasis on the priority of the digital sphere , on the search for talent to achieve that goal and on the importance of the journalist, for example through live connections such as the ones she has starred in. Ariza warned that "telecentric" could not be sinned in the 21st century , and announced that it had to become a "multiscreen".

First words and doubts

Some members of the corporation skeptically fit those words, given a possible loss of relevance of the news and an alteration of the status quo , labor customs included. There was no shortage of who intervened to point to Ariza that TVE does not have private channels as a model, in clear reference to La Sexta.

Among all the sources consulted by THE WORLD, several consider Ariza's speech enthusiastic, but also daring, perhaps a step beyond the prudent. For example, the journalist told members of the National area that politicians should be asked incisive questions, a method of work that they take for granted in that department and for compliment.

In short, the online message has not connected to the device. The subsequent referendum, with data that have been known this Monday, show some support from the Informative team, but also a minimum motivation. " We regret the low participation despite the effort to expand the census," said the Information Council, the workers' representative body.

The referendum

Ariza votes in 2019 and Alegría in 2018

Issued: 498 (In 2018, 855)

  • Total Yes: 308 / 61.85% (in 2018, 85.38%)

  • Total No: 117 / 23.49% (in 2018, 5.61%)

  • Total blank: 73 / 14.65% (in 2018, 9%)

  • It serves to exemplify the disconnection between personnel and online environment the fact that it was the first referendum conducted telematically; well, these digitized elections have had less influx than physicists . The overwhelming support for Alegría is already part of the past.

    In his first speech, Ariza had also stressed that his appointment was due to Hernández, but his public support is limited; so much so that only 14.7% of the votes of the Informative staff were favorable to him when the referendum on his appointment was held.

    From Hernandez to Mateo

    Hernández must channel the news, without Ariza. Mateo and Alegría had separated paths months ago. This disagreement was revealed on the occasion of the April electoral debate . Then, the Information Council reprimanded the administrator who had folded to the "one-party" proposal, referring to the date selected by the PSOE of Pedro Sánchez.

    The sole provisional administrator, who today has accumulated 16 months in command and has attended two general elections in that position, then ran into an answering character that he did not have. Mateo had extensively reorganized the corporation as soon as it arrived, to the point of changing more than fifty positions in its first month, in the summer of 2018. Thanks to that deep remodeling, they recovered profile positions that had taken hold when José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero He was president and they had been displaced once Mariano Rajoy acceded to the Executive.

    The administrator has since been able to enjoy plenipotentiary capacities, as there is no Board of Directors that monitors or votes on its decisions. Mateo blessed the rise of Joy the summer of last year. Some critics with the Rajoy stage were reinforced in the new scenario. During the stage of both the newscasts of La 1 have descended to the third position , below the news of Telecinco and Antena 3.

    The programming seen in Moncloa

    In Moncloa, however, there is always someone who follows TVE, and the desired programming does not always appear. Last August, for example, the chain insisted on gathering the humanitarian crisis of the Open Arms , during which the communication strategy of the PSOE gave more than one blow.

    On September 3, when Sanchez formalized his proposals for a progressive government, TVE's breakfasts chose to interview Pablo Iglesias , who marked distances with the socialist and ended up under the spotlight of today. Only one day later, the appointment of Enric Hernández, advanced by EL MUNDO, became official. Faced with that decision, the leader of Podemos did not hesitate to qualify RTVE as "TelePSOE".

    Mateo needed to degrease the relationship with his writing, for which the former director of El Periódico joined an ad hoc position from which all radio, television and internet information can be monitored. This sudden entry in the organization chart, above Alegría, was followed by the fall of the news director of the television branch.

    Hernandez is well seen in the current Executive, in the same way as Ariza, both with a long informative trajectory. They saw each other recently in Paris , where she worked as a correspondent, and thus the appointment as director of news was propped up, now frustrated. "I apologize in advance for the inconvenience my decision may generate. I will continue to perform my task as a correspondent with the same enthusiasm and energy as always," said Ariza in his farewell message.

    While waiting for PSOE and Podemos to derail Sánchez's investiture - and taking into consideration the importance that purple training places on public television - the cards have moved on the board during the current Government .

    The formation of Iglesias has defended that the new dome of RTVE must be configured through the public contest already started; In fact, among the shortlisted candidates there are several that fit the preferences of that party. However, this process is stopped and subjected to about thirty resources.

    That paralysis was worth Sanchez to protect the figure of a single administrator, supposedly provisional, who was later backed by Parliament. After Mateo, Hernández arrived and then Ariza.

    With or without an agreement to form a Government, the boxes of the RTVE News Office were doubly occupied, so any subsequent variation would require negotiations, assignments, compensation ... The correspondent has preferred to leave such a complex departure.

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