We said last Wednesday that Alessandro Salem It already had its new News Director and this Thursday we announced the name of Paco Moreno, until now the sole administrator of the Canarian Autonomous Television. We spoke with the journalist as soon as he formalized his contract with the Fuencarral network.
We asked him for Juan Pedro Valentín, current head of Mediaset News, and by Pedro Piqueras, head of Telecinco news. “I have the highest opinion of both of them. “I’m sure they’re going to help me a lot,” he tells us hours before the audiovisual giant officially announces the change in leadership of such an important area.
Paco Moreno (Ronda, Málaga, 1964) leaves public radio and television in the Canary Islands after four years and moves to the private sector: “I am very grateful to the management of Mediaset for the professional challenge it puts before me,” he says before anticipating the good spirit with which he embarks on his new challenge: “I come to add,” he says, and remembers the importance of uniting efforts: “All my professional successes have been and will be the result of teamwork, the sum of many wills and talents,” he repeats. “I will assume all responsibility and will never offload it on anyone,” he promises: “This is going to be everyone’s job as one,” he says. “Mediaset has a great editorial staff, and together, we will find the routes and the story that will allow us to continue earning the public’s appreciation.”
Paco Moreno He is no stranger to the situation experienced by the group he joins, whose main channels, both Cuatro and Telecinco, are going through a very difficult time. “It’s not about finding an audience, it’s about finding the viewers,” emphasizes the new Mediaset News director.
His recipe?
He says that the formula to recover ground is “rigorous and well-told information”, a recipe that, we fear, those currently in charge were already trying to put into practice in their daily lives. “I defend that journalism that focuses on collecting the facts, contrasting them, telling them with interest, and letting the viewer form an opinion about what happened,” he advances in what seems to mark a priority for information over opinion. , perhaps a declaration of intentions against those who proposed an author’s ‘television’ in the style of Vicente Vallés. By the way, Paco Moreno was the boss almost 20 years ago of the current director of Information at Atresmedia, the Canary Islander Santiago González.
“With narrative innovation and collective commitment, I am totally sure that along this path, we will be a reference for Spanish audiovisual information,” he tells us before taking a plane that will allow him to be disconnected for just over two hours and reflect after reading the torrent. of WhatsApps that, as he confesses, have begun to flood his mobile phone since we announced his appointment, reported by many media outlets.
Paco Moreno confirms his willingness to have Juan Pedro Valentín
Until now, the position of head of the group’s News area was in the hands of Juan Pedro Valentín, who is preparing the relaunch of Noticias Cuatro, once the listed company has decided to close the digital portal Nius and transfer many of the journalists who work there to Cuatro. Our sources assure that the chain has Juan Pedro Valentín. This Thursday precisely the committee was going to distribute the sub-addresses. Pedro Piqueras, who turned 68 in May, directs Telecinco’s news, and in the media his departure is assumed to be a given in the near future. Both will now be under the command of Paco Moreno.
The current sole Administrator of RTVC had been in charge of public radio and television in his second stage since October 2019, when he was elected with the parliamentary support of five of the six forces represented in the Canary Islands Chamber: PSOE, CC, PP, UP, NC , ASG. The Ronda native declares himself “not very political” although different sources consulted tell us that he “is rather progressive.”
Throughout his long career, he has carried out News Management tasks at TVE-Canarias and Antena 3, and has combined this with general executive management tasks at RTVC and Editorial Prensa Ibérica, as Director of their Audiovisual Area. Professor of Communication at the Next Business International School.
Currently it is First Vice President of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He was a Talent Award winner in 2009 from the TV Academy. On the occasion of the news coverage of the eruption of the La Palma Volcano, the network he directs won the 2021 National Television Award, and other recognitions such as the Ondas, the Iris América or the one awarded by the APM.
The outgoing sole administrator of Radiotelevisión Canaria (RTVC) is from Ronda by birth but “very Canarian”, as confirmed by those around him, since he has been linked to the Canary Islands for several years for work reasons. His accent confirms it. Francisco Moreno García also served as president of the Federation of Autonomous Radio and Television Organizations or Entities (FORTA) in two stages, by decision of the General Meeting.
Moreno, with a degree in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, is a veteran in all areas of the audiovisual sector, as a journalist and as a manager.
At 59 years old, he has been through almost all the major media outlets. He obtained his position by competitive examination at Spanish Television in 1987 and where he remained until 1999. In 1990 he was appointed head of TVE’s Daily News Services in the Canary Islands, and then director of News and Programmes, a position he held until 1999, when he left. state public television to assume the direction of Antena 3 in Las Palmas. He has made his executive tasks compatible with the direction of reports and audiovisual content.
He could have been president of RTVE when José Manuel Pérez Tornero was elected
After his time at Antena3, in 2001 he was commissioned by the Government of the Canary Islands to revive the Public Radio and Television of the Canary Islands and one of his first actions was to incorporate RTVC into FORTA, of which he was named president in November of that year.
In 2005 he finished his first stage at RTVC and joined the Iberian Press Editorial Group as general director of the Audiovisual area. Later he assumed the Directorate of Institutional and Corporate Communication of the Lopesan hotel company, a position that he has combined with that of professor of Advertising and Corporate Communication at the Next IBS Business School.
He participated in the merit contest for the election of the Board of Directors and President of RTVE. Since November 2019, he has held the position of provisional sole administrator of RTVC and its commercial companies. Paco Moreno was the boss of Santiago González almost 20 years ago, director of News at Atresmedia since 2016.