Elisa Beni Uzabal (born 31 July 1964) is a Spanish journalist. When she took over ' at 23, she became the youngest newspaper director in Spain.

Biography

Elisa Beni graduated in Information Sciences from the

University of Navarra The University of Navarra is a private Catholic research university located on the southeast border of Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. It was founded in 1952 by Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, the founder of '' Opus Dei'', as a corporat ...

. She has worked at ''

La Voz de Almería ''La Voz de Almería'' is a local daily newspaper published in Almería, Spain. It has been in circulation since 1939. It is one of the leading papers of the region. History and profile ''La Voz de Almería'' was established in 1939 as ''Yugo'', ...

'', '' La Razón'', '' Época'' magazine, and was editor-in-chief of the now-defunct newspaper ''

Diario 16 ''Diario 16'' (Spanish for "Daily 16" or "Newspaper 16") was a Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Madrid, Spain, between 1976 and 2001. The ''16'' of the title refers to the sixteen founders of Grupo 16, publishers of the weekly news m ...

''. She has been director of

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stations and is a regular contributor to

Julia Otero Julia María Otero Pérez (born 6 May 1959) is a Spanish journalist. Biography The only daughter of a trumpeter and a housewife, Julia Otero has lived in Barcelona since she was three years old. Her childhood was spent in the neighborhood of ...

's program on

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, ', as well as television programs such as ', ', ', ' (on

laSexta La Sexta (; ; stylised as laSexta) is a privately owned Spanish free-to-air television channel that was founded on 18 March 2001 as Beca TV and began broadcasting on 1 April 2001. By 21 July 2003, the channel ran into debt and was shut down, bu ...

), and ''Madrid al Día'' (on

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). In 2001 she married for the second time, to judge , magistrate of the

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. They divorced in April 2014. In 2004 she was appointed communication director of the , a position from which she was dismissed in 2008 "for loss of confidence" following the publication, in November 2007, of the book ''La soledad del juzgador'', about how her husband, the investigating judge of the 11-M case, had dealt with the judicial process. In June 2014 she published a novel, ''Peaje de libertad''. In June 2022 she won the “Charo’s Champions League organized by the Twitter user Niggflix.

Selected publications

* ''Levantando el velo. Manual de periodismo judicial'' (2006) CIE Inversiones Editoriales Dossat-2000, S.L., – with Javier Gómez Bermúdez * ''La soledad del juzgador'' (2007)

Editorial Planeta Planeta Corporación, S.R.L., doing business as Grupo Planeta (), is a Spanish mass media conglomerate operating in Spain, Portugal, France and Latin America. It is headquartered in Madrid. Editorial Planeta, founded in 1949, was the seed of Gru ...

, * ''Peaje de libertad'' (2014)

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, * ''La Justicia sometida'' (2015) Los Libros de la Catarata, * ''Pisa mi corazón'' (2017) Editorial Almuzara,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Beni, Elisa 1964 births 20th-century Spanish women writers 21st-century Spanish novelists 21st-century Spanish women writers Living people People from Logroño Spanish newspaper editors Spanish women journalists Spanish women novelists University of Navarra alumni Spanish women newspaper editors Diario 16 people