Javier Moreno is appointed director of the UAM-EL PAÍS School of Journalism

The former editor-in-chief of El Pais and editorial director at PRISA, Javier Moreno, has been named director of the  UAM-EL PAÍS School of Journalism. He takes over from Belén Cebrián, who served in the post for the past three and a half years. She will continue to teach at the center. More than 1,200 students have attended the School over the past 32 years, chiefly to study the the Masters in Journalism.

Javier Moreno has a degree in chemistry from the University of Valencia. After practicing this profession in Germany, in 1992 he completed the Masters in Journalism and subsequently joined the Business section of El País. Two years later, he was named bureau chief in Mexico, where the newspaper was set to launch its first Latin American edition. On his return to Spain, Moreno joined the International section of the paper and, in 1999, he was appointed head of the Business section. He took over the Berlin bureau in 2002.

A year later, Moreno was named editor-in-chief of the business and finance newspaper Cinco Dias, published by PRISA. In 2005, he returned to EL PAÍS as deputy editor of the Sunday edition before, just one year later, becoming editor-in-chief of the newspaper, a post he held until May 2014. Since then, Moreno has served as editorial director, a post he has combined with that of heading the Leading European Newspaper Alliance (LENA), an organization that brings together various European newspapers for the sharing of content.

"At the School we learned the craft of journalism from previous generations; we learned the value of honesty, fairness and independence," said Moreno, who becomes the first former student to return as head of the School. “We learned to be fiercely independent. First, to be independent from ourselves: from our own prejudices, our own interests. And then, independent of everything else. Safeguarding these values ​​is my commitment today."

Speaking to the Board of the School (made up of the Autonomous University of Madrid and PRISA – publisher of El Pais), he also promised to oversee the modernization of the center  “required by these rapidly changing times”.

Source: EL PAÍS