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Journalist Enrique Sopena He died this Sunday in Madrid at the age of 79, reports the digital Elplural.com, of which he was the founder.
This media outlet devoted an article titled Goodbye Enrique Sopena, teacher and friend In the portrait of the communicator where he reviews his professional career. In addition, El Plural has highlighted that Commitment to denounce injustice, fight for equality and safeguarding democratic values.
He The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchezhas lamented the death of Sopena. He highlighted in a message via the social network X, “Craft and honesty. Enrique Sopena was a brave journalist and a committed man.”
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After doing an internship at Radio Barcelona (SER) In 1967 he joined the newspaper La VanguardiaWhere he remained until 1974. He then worked at Radio Barcelona and was a correspondent for the newspapers Madrid, Informaciones de Madrid and Diario 16 in Barcelona.
In In 1974 he was appointed section head of the Diario de BarcelonaThis position he held until 1976. On that last date he was appointed editor-in-chief of that medium, which he left in 1979 due to inconsistencies with the editorial line that the newspaper had adopted and taking advantage of the conscience clause.
He was appointed director of information services of TVE in 1985.
After directing the show and reading the voiceover Night (The Night) in February on Radio Espana In 1983 he joined the leadership of Spanish television in CataloniaWhere he remained until 1985 when José María Calviño, then Director General of RTVE, appointed him Director of Information Services of TVE.
During his directorship, he was directly responsible for the broadcast of a report on the political past of Manuel Fraga, then president of the Popular Alliance. This program caused a real political storm with the intervention of the President of the Government, Felipe González, who refused to use the past as a weapon.
Dismissed from his position by General Director Pilar Miró in March 1987, he returned to Madrid as representative of the new Diari de Barcelona, now defined as “the progressive newspaper in Catalan”. In 1988 he took over the management of this newspaper, which he directed for just over a year.
in February In 1989, Luis Solana, director general of RTVE, appointed him director of Radio Nacional de España. (RNE). During his tenure he was accused of retaliating against professionals who were critical of the medium. Just one year after assuming the position, he was confirmed as head of RNE by the entity’s new general director, Jordi Garcia Candau. He was in charge of the commercialization of RNE3 and RNE5.
On October 31, 1990, Enric Sopeña was replaced as director of RNE by Fernando G. Delgado and on November 7 he took over as regional representative of TVE in Catalonia. During this stage He actively participated in the development of information systems for the 1992 Olympic Games.. He was one of the executive directors of the only broadcast in Catalan of this program Olympic ChannelResult of an agreement between RTVE and the regional radio and television channel.
In 2005 he was appointed director of the digital newspaper El Plural.
His position ceased after the PP came into government and in December 1996 he was appointed Director General of COM-Radio of BarcelonaWhere he remained for four years until his resignation.
Since then it has becomePolitical analyst of various programs on Tele 5, the now defunct CNN+, RNE and TVE, as well as a columnist in the written press.
In 2005 he was appointed director of the digital newspaper Elplural.com, where he remained a shareholder until 2017.
Author of numerous articles, He also wrote political essays Rajoy’s Spain,
A journalist committed to freedom of expression, he was arrested in 1971 for citing professional confidentiality when asked questions about a press conference of the secret Assembly of Catalonia.
In addition, he belonged to the driving force of the Democratic Group of Journalists, He presided over the Barcelona Press Association and was vice-president of FAPE.. In 1997 he promoted and chaired the Josep Maria Lladó Group of Progressive Journalists and is a representative of the College of Journalists of Catalonia.
Was married to journalist Margarita Sáenz Díaz Trías,