What we thought was good about Nacho Cardero

What we considered good
by Nacho Cardero

The personal reflections of one of Spain’s most prominent journalists.

A change of century is always expected with a certain expectation and optimism because we trust that it will leave behind everything that has disturbed us in the previous one. However, the entry into the 21st century has been more than bumpy. After the Great Recession, when it seemed that we were over ten long years of economic and social instability, the plague broke out. Since then, the world has become a more uncertain, fragile and unapproachable place, where immediacy, relativism and false prophets triumph, an era that questions everything we took for granted.

This is the title that the journalist and director of El Confidencial, Nacho Cardero, has chosen for his book. What we took for granted is not a personal diary, nor an essay, nor a journalistic chronicle, but it is everything at the same time. It is a text written with an open heart, without anesthesia, that describes out loud the experiences of many, what we have lived and what we have felt when the crisis became permanent and the scale of values ​​on which we had built our society was crumbling. little by little.

Nacho Cardero (Guadalajara, 1974) has been director of El Confidencial since March 2011, a position he took up when he was thirty-six years old. During this time, he has published investigations such as “The Falciani List” or “The Panama Papers” (2017 Pulitzer Prize in the category of in-depth journalism), among others, with the help of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Graduated in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, he has also worked in the editorial offices of the newspaper El Mundo and the magazine La Clave. He collaborates on the programs Más de uno, on Onda Cero, and Espejo Público, on Antena 3, and analyzes current political, economic and social news on his blog “Caza Mayor”, in the area of ​​El Confidencial. In 2020 he received the Civil Protection Medal of Merit for his professionalism and orientation to public service for information coverage during the covid-19 pandemic.