The journalist Constantino Mediavilla has died on the age of 63 after a number of years preventing most cancers, in keeping with ‘Madridiario’, the media outlet he directed.
Mediavilla died on the La Paz Hospital in Madrid. The wake will happen beginning this midday on the Servisa Mortuary, positioned at 3 Juan Mieg Avenue.
Intensive skilled profession
The journalist started his profession at ‘Cadena Ser’ within the 80s as a information editor. He labored within the information packages of ‘Onda Galicia-Cadena Ser’, ‘Radio Minuto’ and ‘Radio 16’, earlier than becoming a member of the Radio Cupboard of the Madrid Metropolis Council. On the finish of that decade, he based the gathering ‘El Brasero’ on ‘Radio 16’.
A mannequin that he later utilized to ‘Onda Madrid’, the place he was accountable for the radio magazines. In 2000, he based ‘Madridiario.es‘ and, two years later, he created the Madrid Awards, which for greater than twenty years have yearly acknowledged excellent figures from completely different areas of Madrid society.
At the moment, he mixed the presidency of the Madridiario Group with quite a few collaborations in varied media, together with radio stations, tv packages and written media.
Named Chronicler of the City in 2019, he acquired quite a few recognitions. Amongst them are the Amigo de Madrid Award, awarded by the Municipal Tourism Board (1990); the Villa de Madrid ‘Guillermo Marconi’ Radio Prize in 1991; the Award from the Larger Police Headquarters of Madrid in 1995 and the Award from the Municipal Police of Madrid for informative work in 1996. As well as, he obtained the Environmental Initiatives Award for the La Chimenea program (1997); the Radio Award from the Atmosphere Division of the Group of Madrid for the Píntalo de Verde environmental program of Onda Madrid (1998) and the Award for Tourism High quality in data from the Group of Madrid (1999). These had been the primary recognitions he obtained earlier than founding the primary digital newspaper within the area.
Likewise, he received the Villa de Madrid ‘Mesonero Romanos’ Prize for Journalism (2000); the Antena de Plata for the radio packages on Onda Madrid (2002); the APEI-PRTVI Silver Microphone Award (2006); Antena de Plata as Editor of Madridiario (2014); the Recurra-Ginso journalistic award ‘in favor of childhood’ as Editor of Madridiario (2015) and the medal of honor from the Institute of Madrid Research (2024).
Nice cross of the Second of Might
An amazing lover of golf, this 12 months he acquired the most recent nice recognition: the Grand Cross of the Order of the Second of Might. The president of the area, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, offered him with this distinction in the course of the Group competition.
Today, preceded by an extended ovation and with the assistance of a walker, Mediavilla took the stage. Regardless of his sickness, he said that he nonetheless had “so much to do” and careworn the significance of caregivers.
“You are able to do journalism in freedom, reside collectively, cohabit. Everybody has handed via right here and every part has occurred,” mentioned Mediavilla. She thanked the well being employees for his or her work and requested public establishments to take caregivers under consideration. “With out them it’s tough to maneuver ahead, one can not alone, however all of us… Collectively we are able to,” she added.
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At that occasion, Díaz Ayuso highlighted Mediavilla’s “life of labor on the service of Madrid”, describing him as “one of many nice journalists” and “tireless storyteller in print, digital, radio and tv.”
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