José CERVERA

Jose Cevera is a veteran journalist, currently managing the Retiario section of ElMundo.es, the first professional media blog in Spain. He also maintains his own popular blog Perogrullo.com, and writes for several Spanish media, including El Mundo, Quo, ABC, 20 Minutos, Dinero, Muy Interesante, Generación XXI, and Ausbanc. His journalism career begin in 1996, as a reporter in the Spanish financial newspaper Cinco Días , covering the telecommunications industry, computers and related issues. In 1997-98, Cevera was also co-anchor in a TV program devoted to the Internet in Canal C, a TV channel in the Canal Satélite Digital satellite platform. In 2000, he left Cinco Dias in order to found Baquia.com, a leading technological media in Spain. As a freelance journalist, he was instrumental in creating the free daily 20 Minutos, and in this capacity, created and launched the world's first copyleft licence for a professional media. I am also a

Prior to his career as a journalist, Cevera was a paleontologist in the archaeological site of Atapuerca, in northern Spain, and is a co-author of a book on the site. He holds a Master in Journalism from the School of Journalism at Autónoma University in Madrid and El País, and a B.Sc. Biology from Complutense University in Madrid.