{"id":31684,"date":"2016-01-28T17:35:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=31684"},"modified":"2016-01-28T17:39:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:39:23","slug":"throwback-thursday-juana-la-loca-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/throwback-thursday-juana-la-loca-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Juana la Loca in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

MrB and I have been visiting Madrid and Pamplona so that MrB could speak to journalism students and alumni at the #CelebratingJournalism<\/a><\/span><\/span> events organized by the School of Communication at the University of Navarra<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

For those who don’t know, MrB (also known as Paul Steiger) was the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal for 16 years. During his time there, the paper won 16 Pulitzer Prizes. When he hit the Journal’s mandatory retirement age in 2007<\/a>, I told him there was no way he could hang around the house all day, staring at me and the pets, so in 2008, he became the editor-in-chief, CEO and president of the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica<\/a>. In 2010<\/a>, ProPublica became the first online news operation to win a Pulitzer Prize. It won a second Pulitzer Prize in 2011<\/a>. At the end of 2012, MrB became executive chairman of ProPublica’s board of directors, succeeded as editor-in-chief by Steve Engelberg, and as president by Dick Tofel<\/a>. MrB is still busy with ProPublica strategic work every day. He also gets a lot of requests to speak about the future of journalism, which is what he’s been doing in Spain, on the theme of “Investigative Journalism as a Public Service<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, he gave a speech and did a Q&A in a packed auditorium<\/a> at\u00a0Fundaci\u00f3n Rafael del Pino<\/a> in Madrid. (There were two overflow rooms in the building where people could watch the livestream. This came after he met with journalists separately and did numerous interviews. The organizers called it “the Madrid Marathon”<\/a>!) Journalist Carlos Salas was the moderator<\/a>, introducing MrB’s 25-minute talk and then relaying the attendees’ questions about Sean Penn<\/a> interviewing El Chapo<\/a>; Donald Trump’s presidential campaign<\/a>; and Jeff Bezos’s purchase of the Washington Post,<\/a> among other topics. The organizers of the event were very excited that their hashtag, #celebratingjournalism, became a trending topic on Twitter in Spain.<\/p>\n

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Paul Steiger, junto a Carlos Salas, en la IV Edici\u00f3n de “Conversaciones con…”. #celebratingjournalism<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/SWXb4Xn1Qb<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Carlos H. V\u00e1zquez (@Charly_HV) January 26, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n