Jose Manuel de Pablos Coello
Spain
José Manuel de Pablos Coello is a doctor in Information Sciences from the Complutense University and full professor of "New Information Technologies" at the University of La Laguna. Trained in the Madrid press, he returned to Tenerife in 1979 to direct the newspaper El Día, where he stayed until 1989; in 1990-91 he directed La Gaceta de Canarias.
Writer and journalist, he has published six novels, in Barcelona, Madrid and La Laguna, and is the author of four other books on journalism: Errors in the journalistic text (Barcelona, 1977); Typography for journalists (Madrid, 1994); Current photo-journalism (La Laguna, 1994) and From lead to light (La Laguna, 1993), published by this same publisher. He has taught courses, among other institutions, at the National University of Córdoba (Argentina), at the "Jorge Tadeo Lozano" University of Bogotá Foundation, both in Bogotá and in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), at the College of Journalists of Costa Rica, at the University of Havana, at the University of Caldas in Manizales (Colom bia), at the University of Seville (Spain) and at the Autonomous University of Yucatan (Mexico). He is currently doing research in comparative journalism, prospective and printed visual journalism.