Jaume Roures
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Roures in 2009
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| Born | 1950 (age 74–75) Barcelona, Spain |
| Occupation | Businessman, film producer, political activist and media mogul |
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Jaume Roures Llop (born 1950) is a Spanish businessman, film producer and media mogul from Catalonia. Roures is best known as the founder of the newspaper Público and as the CEO of the media group Mediapro. Considered a left-wing nationalist, he was a member of Trotskyist and Anti-Francoist organizations in his youth.
Early life
Born in Barcelona in 1950,[1] Roures was a member of clandestine anti-francoist organizations such as Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO.), the Workers' Front of Catalonia (FOC) and the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist League (LCR).[2]
Arrested during the Francoist dictatorship, he spent time imprisoned in the Barcelona's Cárcel Modelo from 1969 to 1971 as a political prisoner.[3]
Roures began a career as sports journalist in TV3—the Catalan public television channel created in 1983—serving for eight years at the helm of the Department of Sports' News and Productions.[1]
Mass media businessman
Roures founded the production company Mediapro, primarily employed at its beginnings by the Canal+'s sports productions and the newscast services of Canal Sur.[4]
In 2005, Gestora de Inversiones Audiovisuales La Sexta obtained the last of the DTT licenses granted during the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.[5] Mediapro had a stake in Grupo GAMP (the primary shareholder of the company, the other one being, at the time, Televisa).[5] The related TV channel, LaSexta, begin to broadcast in March 2006.[6]
By means of the publisher 'Mediapubli, Sociedad de Publicaciones y Ediciones S.L.' (created in February 2007), Roures and other partners such as Tatxo Benet and Gerard Romy launched the daily newspaper Público,[7] which published its first issue on 26 September 2007.[8] Vowing to draw disenchanted left-wing readers away from El País,[9] the print version of Público was successively edited by Ignacio Escolar, Félix Monteira and Jesús Maraña.[10] Despite having achieved a substantial readership growth from 2008 to 2012,[11] at the height of 2011 it had become apparent that the business model (with a heavy indebtedness) was not viable,[12] and the company filed a layoff affecting a 20% of the workforce in 2011.[12]
Having filed for receivership on 3 January 2012, Roures and his partners resolved to close the print edition of Público on 24 February 2012.[13] A group of 20 former Mediapubli employees continued publishing the online version without support from the publisher.[14] However, on 23 May 2012, the receiver granted the print and online Mediapubli properties to Display Connectors S.L, a company created in February 2012 and participated by Roures and other Mediapubli people.[15]
As of 2019, he held a 12% stake in Mediapro, primarily owned by Chinese company Orient Hontai Capital.[16]
In 2020, Roures promoted the launch of the think-tank 'Institut Sobiranies'.[17]
Views
Roures is considered a left-wing nationalist.[18] He claims to preserve the ideological views from his youth.[2] Roures has stated that he is in favour of the right to self-determination of the peoples.[19] Despite claiming to have voted CUP in 2012, he has declared not to be pro-Catalan independence.[19][2]
Filmography
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- Mondays in the Sun (2002)[20]
- Love in Self Defense (2004)[20]
- My Quick Way Out (2005)[20]
- Princesas (2005)[20]
- Salvador (2005)[20]
- The Silly Age (2005)[20]
- Va a ser que nadie es perfecto (2006)[20]
- Camino (2008)[20]
- Sexykiller (2008)[20]
- Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009)[20]
- Amador (2010)[20]
- Midnight in Paris (2011)[20]
- Politics, an Instruction Manual (2016)[20]
- Sergio and Sergei (2017)[20]
- My Masterpiece (2018)[20]
- 4x4 (2019)[20]
- Rifkin's Festival (2020)[20]
- Official Competition (2021)[20]
- The Good Boss (2021)[20]
References
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