JOSE DIAZ-HERRERA

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Gender Male
Industry Communications or Media
Occupation Managing Editor. Writer and Journalist
Location Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Introduction Born in the Canary Island in 1950, Doctor in Journalism by the University of La Laguna (Tenerife). Investigative Reporter (Chief) and Senior Editor of Cambio 16, Tribuna, Tiempo, ABC, Diario 16 and others, Master in Control of Information for the Columbia University spent a stage (1977-78) in Time Magazine (NY) and others like Panorama (Italy), L'Express (France), Newsweek (NY) or Der Spiegel (Germany). Senior Editor at the mayor newspapers and magazines of the Spanish press and Writer over the last 19 years. Member of the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) he is in possession of Ortega y Gasset Prize (El Pais Newspaper), Freedom Prize (El Sitio of Bilbao Society),Concordia Prize and others Honors.
Interests Music, Theatre, Opera, good Bookswimming and Mountaineering
Favorite Movies Titanic, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Blade Runner, Star Wars, Psycho, The Godfather, Singin' in the Rain, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Vertigo, The Rules of the Game, Patriot, The Front Page, The Searchers, Sunrise, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Birth of a Nation, The Wizard of Oz, It's a Wonderful Life, Intolerance, Chinatown, The Seven Samurai, The Earrings of Madame de..., The Magnificent Ambersons, A Man Escaped, The Third Man, The General, The Seventh Seal, Taxi Driver, The Night of the unter, Tokyo Story, My life to Live, Duck Soup, The Rise of Louis XIV, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Modern Times, All about Eve, All That Heaven Allows, A Trip to the Moon, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Jules and Jim, Mean Streets, Shadow of a Doubt and Peter J. and the Golden Rain.
Favorite Music Fur Elise, Mountlight, Sonata Beethoven's Symphonies, Farewell, Symphony Requiem and Piano's, Sonata (Mozart), The Blue Danube, Tales from the Vienna Woods, The Valkyrie, Siegfried, Tristan and Isolde, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Macbeth, Manon Lescaut, La Bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Casta Diva, La Mamma e Morta, Imagine, We are the World, Yesterday, All My Loving, New York New York, Wonderful Life, What A Wonderful World, La Vie En Rose, A Kiss To Build A Dream On, Cabaret, Mack The Knife, We Have All The Time In The World, Blueberry Hill, Hello Dolly, Dream A Little Dream Of Me, When the Saints Go Marching In, and a lot of more
Favorite Books The Quixote, 1984, The Second World War (W. S.Churchill), The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, The Gulag Archipielago, Homage in Catalonia, The Open Society and Its Enemies, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Capitalism Socialism and Democracy, The Art Of Seduction, The Weather Makers: The Past and Future Impact of Climate Change, Revolt of the Masses, Capitalism and Freedom, Relativity, The Interpretation of Dreams, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, The Capilalisem Democracy and Leadership, The Good Society, The Edge of the Sword and The Black Love of Peter Joseph Ramírez.