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Jesús Cintora | |
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| Born | Jesús Ángel Cintora Pérez 27 January 1977 Ágreda, Soria |
| Occupation | journalist, writer, TV presenter |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Spanish |
Jesús Ángel Cintora Pérez (born in Ágreda, Soria, on January 27, 1977) is a Spanish journalist and television presenter.
Training and career
[edit]Cintora is BA in Journalism at the University of Navarra from 1999, in the field of Audiovisual Communication. He has been Associate Professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
His first works were developed on the radio broadcasting, Cadena SER of Soria, Pamplona and Zaragoza. He also worked in TVE Navarra, and El Mundo, Marca, and Canal+ (Spanish satellite broadcasting company).
Between 2002 and 2006 was the coordinator of the program of information Hoy por hoy.
Then he went to Cadena SER.
Radio
[edit]From 1996 to 2000, his first works in this area were developed on the radio Cadena SER of Soria, Pamplona, Zaragoza and Madrid.
In 2000 he was member of the team that started digital broadcasts in Radio Marca.
In 2000 he returns to Cadena SER Madrid. Between 2002 and 2006 was the coordinator of the program Hoy por hoy, directed by Iñaki Gabilondo and Carles Francino first since 2005.
Then he went Hora 14 and Hora 25, fin de semana until March 2011, when it starts to run the morning program of Cadena SER after the restructuring of its information services.
On 11 November, the same year he was fired in a new restructuring of information services of this radio network. Cintora himself confirmed it by Twitter days later.
Television
[edit]His first works were for Televisión Española of Navarra, Navarra-Canal 4, and Canal Satélite Digital.
Between 2011 and 2013 participates as a political analyst on several television shows in Spain among which are The debate de la 1 in TVE (Televisión Española) (2012-2013), "La noche del Canal 24 horas' in TVE (2012-2013), El programa de Ana Rosa in Telecinco (2011-2013) and El gran debate (2012-2013) in Telecinco; De hoy a mañana (2012-2013) and El cascabel (2013) in 13TV, Alto y claro in Telemadrid and La vuelta al mundo (2009-2011) in Veo7. and Una mirada al mundo (2012) in Discovery MAX.
Since May 6, 2013, Cintora replaced Marta Fernández in the presentation of the morning TV program Las mañanas de Cuatro in Cuatro. The space reached the leadership of the morning informatives of television in Spain.
In the first edition of the program hosted by Cintora, in 2013, Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Albert Rivera, Alberto Garzón and Pablo Casado Blanco attended the program, all of them before reaching a decisive role in the so-called new politics in Spain.
Between November 24 and December 8, 2013, he hosted the new informative called The Wall (in English).
On June 19, 2014 he is part of the coverage of news of Mediaset Spain on the occasion of the proclamation of the King Felipe VI of Spain, along with journalists Ana Rosa Quintana and Pedro Piqueras.
On March 27, 2015 Mediaset Spain announces his dismission as presenter of Las mañanas de Cuatro. This communication group alleged in an official statement that «Mediaset has the clear objective to inform, not form, audience through a pluralism which give voice to absolutely all political opinions and with presenters who treat information objectively». Cintora however continued in Mediaset in other projects. Anyway, numerous media reported that Mediaset had received political pressure from the government of the Partido Popular to dismiss Cintora for his usual criticism of the government, thesis wich Cintora himself defended.
In November 2015 Las mañanas de Cuatro received the important Premio Ondas (Ondas Award) «for opening a stable time band in television today, for the evolution that its successive directors and conductors have been contributing and the political impact it has had».
In 2015 he presented two editions of the show En la caja, alternately starring some familiar faces of Cuatro Television. Cintora delved into the world of evictions with vulture funds and cutbacks in Health and Education.
In 2016 he leads Cintora al pie de calle.
Press
[edit]He worked first for Diario de Soria and El Mundo. Between 2011 and 2012 he collaborated with the Spanish edition of Rolling Stone. Between 2011 and 2013 he collaborated with Interviú.
Since 2015 he collaborates with eldiario.es, an online newspaper directed by Ignacio Escolar. Cintora writes here an article of opinion weekly.
Books
[edit]On April 14, 2015 Jesús Cintora published in ed. Espasa Calpe La hora de la verdad [The moment of truth]. It is the first time that leaders of the new generation in politics, like Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Albert Rivera, Alberto Garzón or Pablo Casado Blanco were interviewed for a book. Also participate in this work of Cintora some of the characters that the journalist signed for television, as Miguel Ángel Revilla, Sor Lucía Caram or Pedro J. Ramírez. The foreword is by Iñaki Gabilondo, who describes the author: «Jesús Cintora, a young journalist of Soria with whom I met on Cadena SER. It was obvious his personality and flair. His informality, his brazenness and expressive simplicity fits like a glove with the newly released demands of transparency, freshness and audacity».