Jesús Cacho, director and founder of El Confidencial.com, has been dismissed by José Antonio Sánchez, Editor and CEO of Titania, the company that publishes this digital medium. Nacho Cardero, who until now occupied one of the two subdirections, takes the direction of the middle.
Cardero was responsible for information planning, daily management and coordination of the different contents of the medium. Carlos Sánchez, the other deputy director, becomes Deputy Director with responsibility for economic and political information.
The reasons for the dismissal, as elEconomista has been able to confirm, have been the irreconcilable differences between Jesús Cacho and José Antonio Sánchez. In addition, according to sources close to the media, relations between Jesús Cacho and ‘McCoy’ -Alberto Artero- were tense.
Apparently, Artero, director of Cotizalia and General Director of Titania, put obstacles in the way of some of the information from Cacho, who founded El Confidencial in 2001 together with José Antonio Sánchez and Antonio Casado.
Florentino, after the departure of Cacho
Cacho controls almost 30% of the publisher’s capital, but has been left in the minority when José Antonio Sánchez has achieved a ‘nucleus’ of stable power that brings together more than 50%, as reported by . The minority partners, including Alberto Artero himself, have increased their participation in the digital publisher in recent months.
However, the true origin of this corporate movement would be due, according to sources consulted by elEconomista, to Cacho’s eternal struggle to try to exercise foreign journalism under economic and political pressure.
Thus, after his dismissal, he would find the onslaught of heavyweights in the business scene such as Florentino Pérez, president of ACS. Cacho’s fierce attacks and the ensuing anger of the businessman have been crucial and definitive in this story.
In addition, the same sources add that other well-known businessmen such as Los Albertos would also have pressed for Cacho’s departure. More distantly, the former president of the Government, José María Aznar, whom Cacho called Franquito recurrently in his articles, would also have exerted his share of pressure.
New project by Jesús Cacho?
As published by El Confidencial in a note, Jesús Cacho retains his shares in the publisher. However, the journalist intends to sell his share even though the current shareholders do not accept his proposal and do not agree to the purchase.
Even so, it cannot be ruled out that Cacho continues to write with relative frequency in the media, as Alberto Artero publishes on his Twitter. “He is an important shareholder of the support. The logical and desirable thing would be that it was, but everything is very recent,” he pointed out.
But after his departure from El Confidencial, Jesús Cacho could venture to launch a new project, a rumor that comes from afar but could gain weight in light of events. Artero has made reference to this on his Twitter, noting that “the project and the El Confidencial team are still intact. If in the end talent is lost, it will have to be replaced with work. It is a bet for the future,” he said.
The last paragraph of the statement
For its part, it should be noted that in the last paragraph of the statement made public by, it is possible to glimpse the disagreement that the measure has caused in the workforce. “The team of professionals from El Confidencial, Cotizalia and Vanitatis deeply regrets the departure of Jesús Cacho, for what he represented in the project and for the example that he has shown with his work during the years that he has served as a benchmark for the newspaper,” it reads. the writing.
“We are sure that this new stage will deepen the principles of freedom and independence that have governed during this decade,” the note states.
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