Tatxo Benet
Spanish businessman
Josep Maria Benet Ferran (born 14 June 1957), better known as Tatxo Benet, is a Spanish journalist and businessman.
Biography
He studied law (University of Barcelona in Lleida) and Information Sciences (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), although he never graduate from either degree, combining his university studies with a budding career in journalism.
Benet began his professional career in 1975 in El Diario de Lérida as a staff writer for local news and sports. In December 1976, he moved to Barcelona to participate in the launch of the newspaper Catalunya Express as a reporter for the Sports section. In June 1977 he returned to Lleida as a correspondent for the national daily El País and from November 1978, working as a delegate for El Periódico de Catalunya.
In September 1980, Tatxo made what was to be his definitive move to Barcelona to work at El Periódico as editor of Las Cosas de la Vida, being appointed chief-editor of the section in the spring of 1982.
In September 1983, he joined the founding team of TV3-Televisió de Catalunya with the position of head of the News Department's Catalonia section. It was here that Tatxo first met Jaume Roures and Gerard Romy. In January 1984, as TV3 began regular broadcasting, Tatxo was appointed Head of News Assignments. Since then, and for the next fifteen years until 1997, Tatxo Benet was responsible for a variety of areas and held several managerial positions at Televisió de Catalunya.
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