Miguel Ángel Gozalo, journalist and co-founder of the Television Academy, dies

The journalist Miguel Ángel Gozalo, director of TVE in 1982, president of the EFE Agency from 1996 to 2004 and co-founder of the Television Academy, has died in Madrid at the age of 84.

Miguel Ángel Gozalo He began his professional career working in written media such as SP magazine, the newspapers Madrid and Informaciones, which he managed, and ABC, a newspaper for which he was a correspondent in Bonn and Paris. In 1975 he made the leap to radio, becoming director of News at the Chain Being and the program Hour 25.

After passing through other stations such as COPE u Zero Wave, Gozalo made the leap to television in 1976 to direct the news program TVE Night writing, presented by Victoria Prego and Joaquín Arozamena. A few years later, in 1982, he returned to public television when he was appointed director, a position he held for four months and then went to Diario 16.

In 1988, he directed and presented the debate program Right to disagree, and in the 1993-1994 season he returned to television, specifically Antenna 3, as a talk show host on the program Hermida and Co. driven by Jesús Hermida. In 1994, he took office as a member of the board of directors of RTVE and in 1996 he was appointed president and CEO of EFE, a position he held for eight years.

In 2017, Gozalo received the Extraordinary Talent Award with which the Academy highlighted the work and initiative of the first founders of the institution. own Television Academy He wanted to join “in the sadness over the loss of this reference of Spanish journalism.”