Antonio Caño Barranco (born 1957) is a Spanish journalist. He was the editor of El País from 2014 to 2018.
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Biography
editBorn in 1957 in Martos.[1] After a brief spell working for the Agencia EFE, he joined El País at a young age, working at the newspaper's international area. A correspondent in Mexico and the United States, he was responsible for the editions for the Americas.[1]
He was appointed as editor-in-chief of El País on 4 May 2014, at the 38th anniversary of the newspaper.[2] A protegè of Juan Luis Cebrián, El País founder and former editor-in chief, during his 4 year spell as editor, the newspaper's editorial line experienced a further swing towards right-leaning positions, at odds with the chiefly left-leaning readership base of the newspaper in Spain.[3] By early 2018, after a steady decline in sales, his removal from the position of editor was reported; this was interpreted as an attempt to cater to the newspaper's traditional readership.[3] Soledad Gallego-Díaz was announced as his successor in June 2018, in what it was interpreted as a left swing of the editorial line.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b Soteras, Jaime (18 February 2014). "Antonio Caño, un conservador siempre fiel a la empresa". infolibre.es.
- ^ Peña Guerrero, Natalia (2018). La crisis del sistema mediático español: el caso del diario El País (2006-2014) (PDF). Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. p. 127.
- ^ a b Cano, Fernando (27 April 2018). "Antonio Caño dejará de ser director de El País". elespanol.com.
- ^ Cano, Fernando (5 June 2018). "Soledad Gallego-Díaz será la nueva directora de El País". elespanol.com.