Changes in Semana magazine: Alejandro Santos and Ricardo Calderón confirmed their departure – People – Culture

This Tuesday new changes were made in the organization of Grupo Semana. Through your Twitter account, Alejandro Santos Rubino, who at the beginning of last October had assumed the presidency of Grupo Semana, confirmed his departure from that magazine.

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“After 20 years in Semana, I want to thank all the journalists and collaborators, those of today and those of yesterday, for having achieved the dream of becoming a benchmark in the continent. Thank you,” Santos wrote.

On the other hand, it was known that journalist Ricardo Calderón leaves the editorial direction of Semana magazine, which he had recently assumed.

Santos and Calderón assumed these positions a little over a month ago “as part of the transformation process that Semana is carrying out,” according to a statement at the time.

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At the moment, everything indicates that journalist Vicky Dávila would be the new editorial director of the magazine. It is worth mentioning that Dávila is currently the director of Semana Digital with responsibility for all the platforms of that medium.

But nevertheless, an official confirmation statement is expected, as it usually does Week, since in the last hours an alleged pronouncement whose authenticity has not been verified is circulating on social networks.

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After the departure of Santos and Calderón, other journalists and collaborators of the magazine have decided to resign. Among them, the cartoonist Vladdo, who posted on his Twitter account: “As of today (this Tuesday), with great regret, but with absolute determination, I am withdrawing from @RevistaSemana, of which I was a collaborator for 26 years” .

Vladdo explained that “it is not an easy decision”, but that he made that determination because he believes that, “under the new direction, it is evident that this publication will take a very different course and will cease to be the magazine to which I was proud to belong. for most of my professional life. ”

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