After its successful experience in Madrid, where it has been taking place for five years, the first show of the Diario Vivo initiative was premiered last night in Barcelona, at the Apolo theatre. On stage, seven journalists succeeded each other to narrate a story.
“They are personalized documentaries –says François Musseau, Libération correspondent in Madrid and soul of the Spanish project–, where the narrator has something to do with what he tells. That is why it is neither a chronicle nor a conference, but rather a roller coaster of emotions, where the public laughs, is surprised, cries, learns”.
This first Barcelona session strictly complied with this approach that Musseau points out, a mixture of journalism and emotion, which was born in the United States and France and is now presented in other European countries. The diplomatic correspondent for La Vanguardia, Xavier Mas de Xaxàs, opened the fire, narrating his exile from Barcelona after six years as a correspondent in Washington.
When he returned to Barcelona, as "he was not on the same page as the new director", he was assigned to the local section, and ended up regularly visiting the Barcelona Zoo. Seeing Snowflake scratching his armpit, he learned from a caregiver that he had skin cancer and had two months to live. The exclusive, however, was stopped by the director due to political interests and ended up being broadcast by BTV.
The news of the Society section was given by the caregiver Giovanna Valls, who referred to her descent into the hell of drugs, since the first line of cocaine was taken in the summer of 1984, until her recovery thanks to her family.
In the Communication section, the French journalist Jean Décotte referred to his informative adventure in the Occitan town of Bugarach, in December 2012, when the end of the Mayan world was to come and only that population had to be saved. “How do you report something that doesn't happen? he wondered.
In Internacional, the Catalan journalist Teresa Turiera-Puigbò recalled her trip to the Balkans after the war, to collect the testimonies of some of the thousands of women who were raped in the war.
And in Gastronomy, Le Figaro correspondent Diane Cambon narrated with great humor the occasion in which she went to Bilbao to replace her boss, thinking that she had to cover the tasting of the ten best wines in the world when, in reality, she had to be part of the jury.
Màrius Carol, in the National section, analyzed from a historical perspective the events of October 2017, when he was director of La Vanguardia, and the problems he encountered when reporting everything that happened, especially the speech of the Rey, "who was not empathetic or gave any way out."
This first session was closed with the Psychology section by the popular journalist Javi Martín (Whoever falls), who lived on the wave of success until one day all the fears, sadness and anxieties appeared to him and he considered committing suicide. Thanks to psychologists and psychiatrists, today he lives with his bipolar disorder and life goes on. Seven magnificent speakers who get off to a good start this journey of Diario Vivo, fast-paced and ephemeral like the news of each day.
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