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Carles Capdevila
7 Reasons for Believing in a Great Future for Journalism
Journalist and director of ARA newspaper, his projects have received the Ondas Prize, the Spanish Prize for Journalism and the National Prize for Scientific Communication.
Carles Capdevila. © Pere Tordera, diari ARA, 2014
Carles Capdevila (Els Hostalets de Balenyà, 1965) is a journalist and editor of the newspaper ARA (winner of the National Prize for Communication). After graduating in Philosophy, he worked as a journalist in New York from 1992 until 1994 and, since then, has been working in the Catalan media. He has directed, presented or produced programmes for Catalunya Ràdio, TV3 and Antena 3, notable amongst which are Eduqueu les criatures (winner of the Radio Association Prize), Qui els va parir, Malalts de tele (winner of the Ondas Prize), Set de Notícies and Alguna Pregunta Més (winner of the National Prize for Journalism and the CAC Prize for Best Script). He has also worked for the newspapers Sport, Avui, El Periódico and El 9 Nou. He has written several books and is a lecturer in Communication at the University of Barcelona. As editor of the newspaper ARA, he publishes a weekly interview with well-known personalities from the world of thought and ideas. He is also executive director of the TV3 (Catalan Television) programme APM and works with the TV3 programme Divendres as well as the radio programmes El Matí (Catalunya Ràdio) and Hoy por hoy (Cadena SER).
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Kosmopolis 15
7 Reasons for Believing in a Great Future for Journalism