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Journalism Workshop with Helena de Bertodano and Laura Ventura
The magic of a good interview
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Campus Cámara de Comercio de Sevilla (S/ Isabel, 1)
A good journalist should approach any interview in the same way that Albert Camus approached his urge to write: ‘as if my need were infinite and nothing and no one could satisfy it’. Each question should be a challenge, not to make the interviewer look good or to impress the audience, but rather to allow the interviewee to take us, step by step, into his or her inner world, and reveal what lies beneath. What matters is to engage the interviewee with questions that lead to a coherent story, and that, without fighting with the individual, force him or her to say more than they expected. In this workshop, two renowned journalists will unravel the essentials of a good interview, whether for the traditional paper or digital format, or for social media.
The workshop will be given by Helena de Bertodano and Laura Ventura. De Bertodano is a journalist specialising in celebrity interviews and profiles, as well as features and travel articles for publications such as The Sunday Times, The Times, The Telegraph, The Observer, Harper's Bazaar and Marie Claire. She has interviewed over a thousand people in the last 25 years, including the Dalai Lama, Meryl Streep, George Soros, Ringo Starr, George Best, Yehudi Menuhin and Jacinda Ardern. Laura Ventura holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and teaches Literature at the Universidad Carlos III. She has also written several sections in the Argentine newspaper La Nación for the past two decades. She has interviewed personalities such as Joaquín Sabina, Elena Poniatowska, Paul Auster, Javier Cercas, Pedro Almodóvar, Joan Manuel Serrat, Isabel Allende and Mikhail Baryshnikov, among others.
The young people taking part in the workshop will be able to choose one of the celebrities taking part in Hay Festival Forum Seville, conduct a one-minute interview with them using their mobile phone, and share it on social media.
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Teodoro León Gross, Rubén Amón, Ketty Garat, Juan Soto Ivars and Estefanía Molina in conversation
The Mud Machine: Politics versus Journalism
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Fundación Cajasol - Sala Machado
The singling out of the media has become a hallmark of populism. Trump branded journalists as the No. 1 enemy of the people, linking them to the establishment. Indeed, the attack on the press and the courts - with the very doctrine of 'lawfare' or judicial dirty war - is inseparable from the populist drift that has eroded the standards of liberal democracy.
The Andalusian journalist Teodoro León Gross will talk about this complicated relationship between journalism and politics with four outstanding professionals of his profession: Juan Soto Ivars, Ketty Garat, Estefanía Molina and Rubén Amón. León Gross has collaborated with newspapers such as El País, El Mundo and ABC and the different newspapers of the Joly Group in Andalusia. He currently directs and presents the news program Mesa de análisis, on Canal Sur Televisión. Soto Ivars, recent winner of the Jovellanos 2024 International Essay Prize for La trinchera de letras, has become one of the most widely read columnists in Spain. He has published novels, essays and a children's book, and collaborates with media such as Onda Cero, Antena 3, El Confidencial and elPeriódico. Garat is The Objetive's journalist of reference for everything that happens in Moncloa and the PSOE. She is the author of Bajo las alfombras del Congreso and collaborates in different radio and television media. Molina is a political analyst, journalist, and writer who contributes to various television and radio programs and writes for El País; she is the author of Berrinche político. Amón is a writer and journalist with a long career that includes his chronicles as a correspondent in the Balkan War; he collaborates in Onda Cero, with Carlos Alsina, and Antena 3 and writes in El Confidencial and is the author of a dozen books.
