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Friday February 09, 2018 at 15:00

Professor Juan Luis Galiacho, 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award

The Association of Journalists of Albacete will recognize on March 2 with this award the professional career of the professor at the Rey Juan Carlos University, Juan Luis Galiacho.

Laura Susin Ascaso

He calls himself "a long-distance runner, a marathon runner" and assures that "that is why the results are seen in the long term as in this case." The winner is "very happy and content" and says this is an award for three of his facets. In the first place, he says, “because you are a prophet in your land, that is very complicated”; secondly “it is very important that your own fellow journalists give it to you and in a profession with such suspicion as this one”; and thirdly for his career, to which he has dedicated "more than 30 years to journalism and this recognition means that things have been done well".

The delivery will be made next March 2 during a gala held every year by the association and aims to highlight its career in the world of communication. From the APAB they assure that, despite having developed his profession in Madrid, "the journalist has never disassociated himself from his hometown, to which he returns very frequently."

Galiacho began his journalistic career in Antenna 3 Radio in Albacete in 1984 until he became a contributor to the 'Negocios' supplement of the newspaper El País. It has gone through a good number of economic magazines and newspapers, among which the headers stand out: Tribuna, The Business Gazette, the weekly Panorama y Time.

But not only in the written press, since the 90s the journalist has worked on television and radio networks as Tele 5, Cope, Onda Cero, Spanish Television, Radio Intercontinental, Punto Radio, Cuatro and 13 TV, among other. In fact, today she continues to collaborate very closely on the TVE program 'La Mañana de La 1'. He also addresses current journalistic issues for El Mundo and since 2004 in the magazine Interview until its recent closure.

Nor does he forget his role as a professor at URJC when he says that "students also recognize my professional work and helping them with my experience is very satisfying." In addition, Galiacho has written a dozen books and, although he does not reveal what they will be about, he has in mind to write and publish another one very soon.