Joaquín Jiménez Maxwell
Joaquín Buenaventura Jiménez Maxwell (born July 14, 1935 in Sánchez , † August 8, 2011 ) was a Dominican journalist , radio announcer and director.
Life
In 1957, Jiménez passed the Dominican minister of education, Joaquín Balaguer, an exam as a broadcaster and became a spokesperson for La voz del oriente in San Pedro de Macorís. From there he switched to the station HIN until Petán Trujillo brought him to La Voz Dominicana a short time later . After the end of the Trujillo dictatorship , he went to Puerto Rico and worked there for the station Noticias WKW .
In 1962 he returned to the Dominican Republic and founded the Publicilandia news agency there . In May 1963 he founded the radio station Radio Mil together with Manuel María Pimentel . He brought young journalism graduates from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo to Radio Mil , including Pedro Nadal , Moisés Blanco Genao , Negro Martínez , José Ramón Tejera and Emilio Herasme Peña . He himself took over “Radio Mil Informando”, a news program with which he was on the air three times a day from the 1960s to the 1980s.
In 2007 Jiménez published his memoirs under the title Memorias del fracaso de un triunfador .
Web links
- Fallce Joaquín Jiménez Maxwell, veterano de “Radio Mil Informando” (obituary), Listin Diario , August 9, 2011.
- Fundación Fegla: Joaquín Jiménez Maxwell, Padre del Periodismo Radiofónico
Individual evidence
- ^ Rafael Molina Morillo: Jiménez Maxwell, Joaquín Buenaventura. In: Personalidades Dominicanas. Santo Domingo, 1993.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jiménez Maxwell, Joaquín |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jiménez Maxwell, Joaquín Buenaventura (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dominican journalist, broadcaster and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sánchez |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 2011 |