Ángel García Colín, the smiling supervisor | Culture | EUROtoday

Ángel García Colín has left with out dropping his good humor. Those who’ve simply now related his identify together with his reminiscence, having met him, will first think about his early bald head and his frequent smile, after which his dialog filled with jokes and jokes. He repeated them typically, however they had been nonetheless humorous.

Born in Durango in 1959, however within the Leonese city of Cistierna, he died in Madrid this Saturday on the age of 66, because of most cancers. With a level in Information Sciences from the University of the Basque Country and a doctorate from the Complutense University, his skilled profession virtually all the time came about in an exercise parallel to journalism: promoting, advertising and media administration. But in these duties he was all the time simply one other journalist, able to understanding the long-term logic of those that run the media and complementing them with out violence with the short-term wants of those that handle them.

He labored since 1992 for Grupo Prisa newspapers corresponding to EL PAÍS, As o 5 days, and was a founding and decisive member of Printed Media Management (GMI), an organization created in 1999 by that publishing firm and which included newspapers corresponding to The Andalusian Post Office, Odiel, Jaén o The Day of Valladolid, in addition to, later, the Bolivian newspapers The Reason, Extra y The New Day. He additionally concurrently performed a driving function and created synergies within the Press Media Management firm, the place he coordinated Prisa’s collaboration with newspaper publishing corporations corresponding to Canarias 7, El Punt, Diario de Burgos, Diario Palentino, Gaceta Regional de Salamanca, El Progreso de Lugo, Segre, Diario de Notices, Diario del Alto Aragón and Diario de Noticias de Navarra, for which Prisa produced the progressive weekly complement The Look, amongst different merchandise.

Previously, he had labored, since 1987, at Prensa Española (at present Vocento, editor of Abc), and in addition handed by Editorial Católica (which then revealed the Madrid newspaper Of). He joined Prisa in Media Management (GDM), the primary Spanish promoting heart for multimedia gross sales, as managing director of print media. From that place he promoted the event of native and regional press advertising, in addition to numerous magazines. Later he held the positions, amongst others, of company basic director of Printed Media Management (GMI), basic director of PRISA Magazines and director of Institutional Relations and Commercial and Marketing director of PRISA Noticias. After leaving the group in 2021, he was appointed vp of Radio Television of Castilla y León (RTVCyL).

Ángel García Colín loved life together with his spouse, Montse, and his son, Guillermo. And additionally with all his colleagues, whether or not they had been bosses or subordinates. He by no means raised his voice, he evaded discussions with irony, he responded to disagreements by leaning again and opening his arms, an indication of a want for an armistice that was a part of his private essence.

And within the skilled discipline he was above all efficient: he managed to enhance merchandise by discreet affect, he obtained sponsorships and tough promoting like somebody who walks with out giving himself significance, he managed an countless agenda. He was capable of arrange the newspaper on behalf of Prisa Valladolid Day (at present owned by the Promecal group), in not more than three weeks, and contribute to its profitable takeoff. And additionally, creating a superb environment.

The phrase “affable”—an individual who’s nice in dialog and in remedy—appears invented for him. Indeed, Ángel García Colín was an affable supervisor and a deep connoisseur of the uncooked materials he dealt with, the chief profile that many journalists will need to have dreamed of.