2017
• Digital skills and personal transformation in teacher´s
daily lives are among the topics addressed at the annual
event Grandes Profes 2017, held in Madrid and orga-
nized by Santillana and the Atresmedia and Telefónica;
Foundations, and attended by nearly 2,000 teachers.
• Cadena SER presents its campaign Sin respeto no hay
juego (No respect, no game), with big names from the
worlds of football and sports journalism. The initiative
combats discrimination and racism in football.
•
El País wins the King of Spain Prize, in the category of
digital journalism, for its report 40 años del 20-N: La
transformación de un país (40 years after November 20:
The transformation of a country).
• “Management and Educational Transformation” was
the theme of the IV Congress of Santillana Compartir,
held in Jalisco (Mexico), where experts Tyler DeWitt,
Julia Borbolla, Marco Serrato, Ivan Barrera and Roxana
Morduchowicz inspired teachers and school principals.
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
• PRISA Radio shows its commitment to its audiences
with an unprecedented open day to mark ‘International
Radio Day’.
• Argentine President Mauricio Macri opens the ‘Investing
in Argentina’ forum, organized by El País and
PRISA.
• The 5th anniversary of ‘Ruta Maestra’, the magazine
specializing in education published by Santillana
Colombia, which fosters communication and the
sharing of knowledge and experience among experts,
organizations and the educational community.
• TVI, Media Capital’s TV channel, turns 24 and celebrates
with a makeover. It remains audience leader,
with a 25. 4 % share in prime time.
• The 21st edition of the Cadena DIAL Awards enjoys record
audiences for its TV broadcast, with 395,000 viewers.
• Máxima FM celebrates its 15th anniversary, a successful
decade and a half marked by rapid growth and leadership
as Spain’s top radio station specializing in dance music.
El País and the Government of the City of Buenos Aires orga-
nize the International Forum ‘Cities of Latin America’ to address
global issues and major urban challenges in a global world.
• LOS40 celebrates the first ever edition of the World Dance
Music Radio Awards at the iconic Azteca Stadium in Mexico
City. These are the first such prizes for electronic music in
the 12 countries where the station broadcasts.
• The New Arrivals project is launched, an initiative that deals with
immigration in Europe as an issue for urgent journalistic analysis.
It is coordinated by the European Journalism Centre and funded
by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – with the participation
of The Guardian, Le Monde, Spiegel Online and El País.
MARCH
APRIL
• Santillana launches the 2nd edition of the Educatividad
Awards, a competition that seeks to identify innovative educational
projects in which teachers open up new learning
paths and develop new teaching techniques and methods.
•
El País, Cinco Días and El País Retina come together for a
joint initiative that offers the most comprehensive business
and finance news in Spanish.
• Podium Podcast premieres Bienvenido a la vida peligrosa
(Welcome to the dangerous life), a ten-part series written
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and directed by Guillermo Arriaga.
•
El País launches ICON Design, ICON magazine’s look at design,
architecture and interiors. The aim is to bring the world
of interiors to the general public and keep them up to date
with all today’s design trends and the people behind them.
•
The Huffington Post’s Spanish edition is renamed HuffPost.
The company introduces several important changes such
as a redesign of the website, a new logo and the official
name change to HuffPost across all platforms and social
media channels.
• The 34th annual Ortega y Gasset Awards for Journa-
lism pay tribute to the value of truthful news and information,
freedom of the press and journalistic rigor.
• The LOS40 Primavera Pop festival gets three times
bigger and better as it’s held in three Spanish cities:
Madrid, Malaga and Rubí (Barcelona).
• The director of the show 6AM Hoy por Hoy, Dario
Arizmendi, on Caracol Radio, is awarded the Ibero
American Personality of the Year Award during a
ceremony at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
• LOS40 launches four new online music stations:
LOS40 No. 1, LOS40 Working, LOS40 Runners and
LOS40 Latin. Primarily intended for mobile use, each
offers carefully curated music for different times of
day.
MAY
JUNE
• The Students for Peace collection, published by
Richmond in Brazil, receives the Eltons award in the
category Excellence in Course Innovation, awarded
annually by the British Council to the best products for
English-language teaching.
• The sixteenth edition is held of El País de los Estudiantes,
the competition promoted by El País and Endesa
aimed at bringing journalism into the classroom. 2017
saw a clear trend towards social journalism 2.0.
• Google signs an alliance with El País Retina aimed at
fostering constructive debate that will give a voice to
different views on how our society might make progress
and become more competitive.
• TVI and Plural, both owned by Media Capital, were
the big winners at the eighth edition of the Television
Awards 2017 in Portugal, given by the Impala group,
with the two companies taking home 17 of the 25
awards.
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