Una memoria de El País

Synopsis of Una memoria de El País

«Una memoria de El País» is the journalistic chronicle by Juan Cruz Ruiz, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (234 pages, in Spanish).

The author recalls from the newsroom the first twenty years of El País: the founding of the newspaper, the craft of journalism, and the keys to a project that marked an era. With anecdotes and personal portraits, this testimony links the newspaper's history to Juan Cruz Ruiz's own life.

Published in 1996, the book's subtitle is «20 años de vida en una redacción»; it belongs to the Tal Cual collection (number 7) and includes a prologue by Antonio Muñoz Molina.

For readers interested in the history of Spanish journalism and in the role of El País as a reference newspaper.