Jesús de Polanco

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Jesús de Polanco, 2006

Jesús de Polanco (born November 7, 1929 in Madrid , Spain ; † July 21, 2007 there ) was a Spanish media entrepreneur . In 2005 he was ranked 210th of the richest people in the world and in 2006 it was ranked 258th.

Life

Polanco comes from a small family and financed his law studies as a book seller. At the end of the 1950s he founded the book publisher Santillana , through revinvestments this became the nucleus of the Prisa group, in which he last held a 64 percent stake.

In Spain, shortly after the death of the dictator Franco in May 1976, he founded the largest and most internationally known daily newspaper in Spain, El País , which was traditionally close to the socialist party PSOE . Because of his political influence, he was nicknamed Jesús del Gran Poder , and his dominance in the Spanish media has been criticized by the right-wing political party. His opponents accused him of using a monopoly to conduct tendentious reporting . Among other things, in 2004 Prisa was accused of unilaterally informing public opinion by reporting on the Madrid train attacks and thus influencing the 2004 Spanish parliamentary election to the detriment of the Partido Popular . However, Polanco's influence in consolidating Spanish democracy was particularly emphasized by non-nationalists and internationally.

Under Polanco's leadership, Prisa expanded into the Latin American market, but under his leadership was also active in Portugal and with the daily Le Monde in France.

Polanco died in mid-July 2007 of complications related to arthritis .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Javier Caceres: The Bookseller . Obituary, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 23, 2007, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Polanco, Jesús de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish media entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid , Spain
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2007
Place of death Madrid , Spain