Rubén Amón, at the inauguration of the XXI Master in Journalism of EL MUNDO: "You have to look for truth and beauty"

• Escuela Unidad Editorial The main journalists will teach in the Master of Investigative, Data and Visualization Journalism of EL MUNDO

It is difficult to be a sailor on the high seas and also a peasant. In a different way, it is also hard to be a firefighter, a policeman or to work on

. These last three activities share with the journalistic profession

A continuous outburst that leads to taking risks, trying against any circumstance and, why deny it, always wanting more.

On Monday, the students of the XXI edition of the EL MUNDO Master in Journalism, taught by the

(ESUE) and the

CEU, a formative experience that approaches the practice of journalism from different angles and platforms, focusing on the new realities and mechanisms that make up this profession in which, above all, curiosity prevails.

This was stated at the headquarters of the newspaper EL MUNDO, in

, by all those who

spoke

at the inauguration:

, director of the School of Editorial Unit (ESUE)

, founder and honorary director of this master's degree,

, Dean of Humanities of the San Pablo CEU University,

, director of EL MUNDO and

, who began his journalistic career in this house and returned to give impetus to future colleagues with a brilliant inaugural lesson.

Amon was moved to discover that one of the new classrooms at the School was named after

, who passed away last year.

It helped him provide students with some often-forgotten maxims.

For example: that you have to "work from curiosity" and in permanent search "for truth and beauty."

And that success in the work, after all, takes the form of "balance between substance and form."

There will be 26 students who this year, in addition to being thoroughly trained, will be able to work for six months in different publications of the Editorial Unit.

Paid internships that will allow professionals with different nationalities to jump into the ring, including

,

or

.

"A new team and new facilities" are also inaugurated in the "oldest master's degree in the School", according to Rafael Moyano, its director, who also recalled how the difficulties experienced last year, during the pandemic, ended up affecting the improvement of the same.

"The great antibody that is inoculated with this profession is truthfulness," he said.

"Without journalism there is no democracy";

Solano also told them.

And from the trench, Rosell reflected: "Everything conspires against good information and, now, it is more important to give the news well given than to give it first."

"We must guarantee credibility, which is hard to earn but can be lost very quickly," he said.

A mention of the only thing in the profession that has not changed in recent years, after crises and crises and the digital advent, was made by the founder, Justino Sinova: "The fear of information power."

"You have to tell the news well and tell it even when you don't like it. Don't fall into the disease of militancy," he encouraged.

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