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"Today is another day that we are going to receive porta gayola."
The owner of this phrase is
Isabel Jiménez
, the journalist and presenter who, together with
Ángeles Blanco , is in charge of the
Telecinco News
at noon every day at three
in the afternoon sharp.
Many things have changed in the last month.
Before,
Isabel Jiménez
shared the set and the same time with her beloved
David Cantero
, now she shares it with
Ángeles Blanco
, with whom she makes a tandem that goes far beyond the 45 minutes of
Telediario
.
Because the job of these two journalists is not only to go out into the ring at three, the work begins much earlier, much earlier, and always at the limit.
"This is like this every day," confesses
Ángeles Blanco
as soon as he finishes the
Informativo
.
Blanco
arrived 21 years ago - he was only 20 years old - to the now defunct Telecinco news program
Between Today and Tomorrow, which
Miguel Ángel Aguilar
hosted at the time
.
Jiménez
joined Telecinco in the early 2000s. She was an intern at the
Telecinco Informativos
branch in Seville.
In those practices, her passion for information and current affairs was born.
He changed Telecinco
for
Antena 3
for a time
: he signed for the Antena 3 program
A Fondo
where he was in charge of carrying out investigative journalistic reports, and some time later, he was in charge of sporadically presenting
Antena 3 Noticias
'
morning news
as well as carry out important news coverage as editor of the Society Area, being sent special to Lorca for the 2011 earthquake or to Japan for the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. In that same year she returned to the house where she was born.
And she has been there for 13 years now.
A little over three months ago, the arrival of
Francisco
Moreno
to the direction of
Mediaset
News
changed everything.
The time had come to truly invest in information, the time had come for Telecinco to recover the information strength of yesteryear.
After the signing of Carlos Franganillo as director of
Informativos Telecinco
and presenter of
Telediario 2
, and after ending the Singapore set that covered the backs of Pedro Piqueras and the rest of the presenters for years, it was time to relocate, rethink and revolutionize everything the rest:
set
,
coverage
,
technologies
and
presenters
.
It was the turn of
Ángeles Blanco
and
Isabel Jiménez
to meet again, although the two assure that
they never lost sight of each other
, because their story, which few know, began a long time ago.
Because in the union of these two journalists, two of the few women in charge of one of the most important news programs and together, there is a surprising and unknown story.
The two say that they have actually known each other since almost the beginning of their careers, especially since the beginning of
Isabel Jiménez
's career , "when I was an intern."
Although
Isabel Jiménez
prefers not to reveal the 'big secret' that they both keep, it is
Ángeles Blanco
who encourages her to tell it.
And he tells it, they tell it, because the tandem never rests: "
I was an Ángeles scholarship recipient
. Well, not their scholarship directly, but we have an anecdote together that is impossible to forget. I was in the second year of my degree and one weekend I The head of the Madrid
News
weekend
, who was Ángeles, calls and tells me that I have to go live. Live? Suddenly? Me, who was an intern, who had never gone live and who "I had to do it at the moment.
I started sweating like I had never sweated before...
".
"And, look, where the intern has arrived!", Ángeles Blanco interrupts, causing both of them to laugh.
"Except in the offices, which are still occupied by men, in the media editorial offices there are many women"
White Angels
Because the laughter between them is the symbol that they can now relax after many hours of stress, which is never seen on television, but they are the ones that mark each step from eight in the morning when they both arrive at the drafting.
Isabel and Ángeles sit opposite each other, next to them their entire team: Diego, Nines...
A team where, just like in their midday news programs, the women rule.
"It's not a very experimental thing either," says Ángeles Blanco when we ask if we are at a time when women have taken control of information.
"I think it is a statistical question of women who study journalism.
In the end it is a reflection of the fact that there are more and more women who study journalism and of what happens in the newsroom
. I mean, really, except in the offices, which still "They are occupied by men, in the newsrooms of the media there are many women. So I believe that in the end it is a reflection of what happens in the profession," concludes Blanco.
In fact, Blanco's case is one of the most curious in the profession, because, although she denies that she takes work home for her, it is inevitable, since she not only shares a profession with her husband, Vicente
Vallés
, presenter and director of the
News
on Antena 3 at night, but they also have to compete for audiences between two networks that have always been rivals.
"Sometimes we make a joke, but
there are things that are not discussed at home
," Blanco admits with a laugh.
They assure that the audiences do not obsess them, although, logically,
every morning they look at and analyze the data with their team
.
"The good thing about the
News
," says Jiménez, "is that you are not as subject to audience data as in entertainment programs because our work does not depend as much on the audience and if you make a bad statement they will not cancel you."
Of course, if the data goes wrong, they will have to make changes, but, for now,
the tsunami started by Francisco Moreno is working
.
"Little by little," they acknowledge.
Neither of them deny it: it is a stage that has given them back "their excitement" because, let's be honest, "modernity has arrived." We were far behind the rest of the television networks.
We were in trouble and the time had come to change and that's what we're doing,
" says Blanco. "Let's say that what it does to you is
removes the cobwebs
and, suddenly, it's a stimulus to keep working, like it gives you back your excitement," adds Jiménez.
What few know, if not no one knows, is that both
Ángeles and Isabel arrive first thing in the morning because they are the ones in charge of writing everything that will later be transferred to the viewer
.
They are in charge of writing the information that comes out of the first rundown meeting around nine in the morning.
From that moment on and as soon as they leave the meeting room, stress will take over the entire team.
All the graphics, all the videos, everything that appears in the midday News is done according to what they write.
In fact, they confess, like the phrase with which this report begins, that most days it is improvisation and the information impulse that leads to changing or deciding everything in the last minutes.
They run from one place to another, they go from one room to another, they go down to makeup, to the locker room, they go back up, they talk to each other, to their team, to Francisco Moreno, to
Eva Triviño
, deputy director of
Telecinco News
, they go to the room. of graphics in case there is a possibility of seeing before the News News starts the graphics that they will have to explain to the public... It is non-stop.
So much so that today, whose main topic is drug trafficking in Barbate after the death of two civil guards, the rush causes
Ángeles Blanco
to trip when going down the stairs to go to the set and a minute before starting the tailoring equipment he has to sew him up. at full speed the hole that has been made in his pants.
"There is no pain
," says the journalist.
"At first it's like the most absolute chaos and then at the end it's like whatever happens, that's it, it turned out well. No one has died"
Isabel Jimenez
The News
Starts
.
From the production control, Nines controls everything like a great orchestra director.
Each of the members of the Ángeles and Isabel team is in the making
.
Everyone to a Fuenteovejuna.
There is a device that does not work.
They are not heard.
First crisis.
The plan is not good to boot.
Second crisis.
The signs are not good.
Third crisis.
There is no time to give way to one of the editors.
Fourth crisis.
There is a pause that should not exist when entering one of the graphs.
Fifth crisis.
The News has gone 40 seconds over time.
Sixth and last crisis.
They do realize it, they suffer it, they punish themselves, they push themselves to incredible levels.
The viewer will not even have noticed any of this, but that doesn't matter because everything mentioned above cannot happen again.
"At first it's like the most absolute chaos and then at the end it's whatever, that's it, it turned out well. No one has died. It
could have been worse
. And now, effectively, you release all the adrenaline and say come on, come on." for tomorrow."
Most likely they will re-enter porta gayola
.
Information and quality is what rules.
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