Pedro Cifuentes Huertas

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pedro Cifuentes is a Spanish journalist and editor. After starting his career at the political section of the newspaper El País, he worked as Social Sciences editor, and later assistant editorial manager, of the Encarta digital encyclopedia (Microsoft) in its Spanish and Latin American version. Since 2008 he has combined the practice of journalism with the coordination of online content and university and postgraduate teaching. A contributor for different media outlets on both sides of the Atlantic, he has translated into Spanish, in addition, several books by authors such as Isaiah Berlin, Anthony Giddens or Malcolm Gladwell.

He teaches journalism and communication at IE Business School since 2009.

Apart from Spain, he has worked in Argentina (for newspaper La Nación, 2010-2013) and Brazil, where he served as correspondent for El País in Rio de Janeiro in 2014 and 2015.

From the end of that year until 2018 he wrote chronicles and investigative reports about the world of sport and politics in El Español (Madrid), as member of its founding team. After two years as staff reporter and Sports coordinator at El Confidencial, he now writes about sports industry and politics in Spanish newspaper ABC, as well as acting as freelance communication consultant and occasional content manager.