EL MUNDO reinforces its management team with a new generation

• Joaquín Manso, new director of EL MUNDO

One month after

took office as director of EL MUNDO, the newspaper announced the renewal of its management team.

This consolidates a generational change at the head of the newspaper that Manso himself already advanced when he went to the newsroom for the first time as director.

“We are the children of that generation, of those who founded this newspaper, who read it, who now take responsibility for the contents of this newspaper.

Most of us who are here », he said then.

The mission of the new team is, in the words of the director, to make "a new newspaper that engages a new generation of readers."

For this, he will add additions to a

where said relief is combined with journalistic experience.

Thus,

(Madrid, 1977) will be, as the new

, responsible for the newspaper's strategy and innovation in this new stage.

Ruiz has developed his entire career at EL MUNDO, where he entered as an intern in 2000. He has been head of the Television, Madrid and Closing sections, and has been in charge of the digital area for eight years.

From there, he has led the digital transformation of the title, which regained leadership in audience at that stage, and the development of the Premium product, the first payment model launched in Spain, in 2019, and which already has 95,000 subscribers.

The video, audio and social media departments also depend on him, pioneers in Spain with launches such as his daily podcast and his Tik Tok channel.

After directing the Spanish section for eight years,

(Ibi, 1975) takes

on the Economy and Business area as

Pascual has almost entirely developed his career at EL MUNDO, which he joined in 1998 in the Alicante delegation, and was already in charge of the Economy section between 2008 and 2014. With his appointment, the newspaper will undertake a quantitative and qualitative reinforcement of economic information, which will be essential at a critical national and global moment.

Roberto Benito

(Torrejón de Ardoz, 1979) is the new

.

With a degree in History from the Complutense University of Madrid and a student on the Master's in Journalism at EL MUNDO, he joined the newspaper in 2003 and has developed his professional career there.

He was the newspaper's defense correspondent for seven years, during which time he learned first-hand about the main international conflict scenarios, and since 2014 he has been section chief in the political area.

He will now assume the task of coordinating the work of the newsroom and the content published by the newspaper in any of its formats.

Juan Fornieles

(Terrassa, 1969) will be the

in charge of supervising the

, the supplements (Crónica, LOC, Viajes, Zen, Metrópoli) and the Yo Dona magazine.

He will also assume the management of the newsroom.

Fornieles made his debut in EL MUNDO in 1996 and has worked in the editions of Catalonia and the Valencian Community.

He has been an editor for Communication, Society and Casa Real.

In addition, he was head of Closing, responsible for EM2 (Culture, Science, Health and Madrid) and the supplement Paper.

He has a degree in Journalism and has a PDG senior management program from IESE.

The

the printed and digital editions is assumed by

(Ponferrada, 1965), after dealing for years with the design of its digital edition and the development of its image on social networks.

Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Madrid, she joined Unidad Editorial in 1996. She has been Art Director of several magazines of the group such as Papel, Eme, Marca Motor, Fuera de Serie and Yo Dona, accumulating numerous international awards.

The main objective of the new management team will be to guarantee the rigor and quality of information that make up EL MUNDO's hallmarks, in order to face the great challenges of current journalism.

In this new stage, the current head of Opinion,

(Madrid, 1982), becomes

and will see his signature strengthened in the daily life of the newspaper beyond its columns, with great reports and interviews with great figures of Spanish politics.

Bustos graduated with the National Prize in Theory of Literature with the first cycle of Classical Philology, but decided on Journalism.

In 2015 he joined EL MUNDO.

He participates as a radio and television talk show host on COPE, Telecinco and La Sexta, and is part of the advisory council of the Fundéu.

Leyre Iglesias

(Bilbao, 1985) is the new

and will continue signing her great reports on weekends.

Graduated in Journalism from the University of Navarra with a national award, she has been linked to EL MUNDO since 2006. For eight years she worked in the newspaper's delegation in the Basque Country, where she dealt with current affairs related to politics, education and terrorism.

In 2015 she moved to Madrid to be part of the team of reporters for the Sunday supplement Crónica, where she writes great reports, combining it in recent years with her opinion columns.

Silvia Román

(Madrid, 1974) assumes the

deputy

, who is also the new diplomatic correspondent for EL MUNDO, where she has worked since 1996. With a degree in Journalism from the Complutense University, she has been a correspondent in Central and Eastern Europe, based In Berlin.

Since 2015 she has been the editor-in-chief of Internacional, in whose section she signs the Diplomacy & Geopolitics page every Sunday, where she carries out an in-depth analysis of current affairs, as well as interviews with world leaders.

Carlos Segovia

(Madrid, 1963) is

and

correspondent for the newspaper.

He has previously been a correspondent for the newspaper in Brussels and has held different positions in the Communication and Politics sections, as well as Economy.

He specialized in economic information at the beginning of his career after graduating in Information Sciences from the Complutense University.

He is a regular contributor to talk shows on radio and television.

Esteban Urreiztieta

(Madrid, 1979) has spent almost two decades at EL MUNDO dedicated to the

of major political and economic corruption issues.

The information about him has just caused the biggest crisis in the history of the PP, which led to the fall of Pablo Casado.

In recent years, he has uncovered cases such as the one that led Iñaki Urdangarin to prison, the PP's B box or great exclusives from the world of football, such as Lionel Messi's contract with Barça, the most important in the history of world sport.

Also part of the staff is

Maite

Madrid, 1963),

and columnist in charge of

, the newspaper's cultural magazine.

She is an analyst at Onda Cero and EsRadio.

She was at El País until 2018, where she was deputy director after developing her career in the International and Opinion sections.

With this team, EL MUNDO will work to be an influential, attractive and bold newspaper, both in its content and in the challenges of the digital transition.

Ferrán Boiza, head of the political area

The new management has promoted other key movements in the newsroom to face the new stage in EL MUNDO.

(L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1969) becomes the new

.

He joined the newspaper's Barcelona branch in 1997, where he became editor-in-chief before making the leap in 2007 to the Madrid central newsroom.

Here he has been editor-in-chief of Nacional, Sociedad, Madrid and Closing, a position he currently held.

Before EL MUNDO he worked for the Europa Press agency and La Vanguardia.

Boiza receives all the confidence of the director of the newspaper to lead a key area at the current political moment in Spain, with determining municipal and regional elections next year, general elections at the end of 2023 and a scenario marked by the division in the Government , the uncertainty of the new Budgets with the increase in military spending and the consequences of the increase in inflation.

Marcos Iriarte

(Pamplona, ​​1981) will, for his part, be the new

, a section in which he has been section chief since 2016. He came to EL MUNDO in 2004. After passing through Diario de Noticias and El Correo, he joined the newspaper's delegation in Bilbao to cover political and court news.

In 2008 he moved to the Madrid newsroom, where he has held different responsibilities in the closing section or in the economic supplement Mercados.

Since 2016 he has been in charge of the Economics section as section chief.

Guacimara Castrillo

(Tenerife, 1979) is appointed

, a team she has already led since 2019 and where she has promoted a change in strategy towards a model based on transferring content to innovative narratives with which to bring journalism closer to new audiences .

Its commitment to developing new narratives through

on Instagram and the launch in 2021 of the TikTok channel stand out, making EL MUNDO the first Spanish general media outlet on this network, where it has more than 300,000 users and videos with nearly five million views.

Section chief of the digital edition

of EL MUNDO,

(La Coruña, 1979) is also responsible for the

strategy , which includes everything from the optimization of Premium content to the strategy of Newsletters, special displays and podcasts.

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