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PRISA Annual Report 2013

01. THE YEAR IN REVIEW Annual Report 2013 APRIL ƒƒ The European Promax Awards honor Canal+ for 8 best sound design for the “Avance Series 2012” promotion. ƒƒ PRISA and the Paley Center for Media, the U.S.’s foremost independent forum for the media industry, organize in Madrid a summit on the future of news and information. ƒƒ PRISA Radio interviews Barack Obama within the framework of the Sixth Summit of the Americas. MAY ƒƒ The Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Spanish Language Academies celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Alfaguara’s La ciudad y los perros (The Time of the Hero) by Mario Vargas Llosa, by publishing a special commemorative edition. ƒƒ Humberto Padgett, Carmela Rios, Carlos Jacobo Mendez and Sir Harold Evans are honored with the Ortega y Gasset Prize for Journalism 2012. ƒƒ Cadena SER brings together leading experts and NGOs to discuss world hunger at the event Encuentrospor. com JUNE ƒƒ PRISA collaborates by second consecutive year with the leading congress on techno-logy and the digital economy, Red Innova, as global sponsor, and as media partner through all its media outlets. ƒƒ El País strengthens its commitment to news and information in Latin America and launches a new online section dedicated to Mexico. ƒƒ Launch of El Huffington Post, the Spanish-language version of the popular U.S. news and views website, created by Arianna Huffington, with Montserrat Domínguez as editor-in-chief. JULY ƒƒ The travel portal El viajero is given a revamp and strengthens its content in collaboration with El País, El País-Aguilar and Canal Viajar. ƒƒ Juan Luis Cebrian is appointed executive chairman of PRISA, Ignacio Polanco as honorary president, Fernando Abril-Martorell as CEO, and Manuel Polanco as vice president. ƒƒ Tribute to Carlos Fuentes, who died in May aged 83, organized by the International University Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) and Fundación Santillana.


PRISA Annual Report 2013
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