El director

David Jiménez spent almost two decades covering wars, disasters and revolutions before being named editor of El Mundo. What seemed an exciting challenge, leading the newspaper where he had started as an intern at the age of 23, became a battle to defend the paper's independence against a political and economic establishment determined to control it.

Jiménez offers a unique account of how life breathes in a newsroom: its characters, rivalries, traumas and triumphs. He shows how the game of favours between the media and power works, and what price those who refuse to take part in it must pay. Presidents, kings, ministers, bankers, money barons, commissioners and journalists take the stage in this chronicle of journalism's unspoken secrets and the threads that govern Spain.

The Editor is, moreover, an intimate portrait of the ethical crossroads, personal relationships, friendships and betrayals that come with running the office of one of the country's major dailies.

The press promised to tell you the truth. David Jiménez tells you the truth about the press.