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12 November: conference Vicent Partal

Catalan Luxembourg Center is pleased to invite you to the conference Vicent Partal, Valencian journalist and director of the digital newspaper VilaWeb which will take place on Tuesday 12 November has 19.00 Center hours local Catalan Luxembourg (88, Rue de la Semois, Luxembourg Ville).

Vicent Partal Montesinos (Bétera, Golf Turia, 1960) journalist and directs VilaWeb. He has also worked The weather, the Point, Diari de Barcelona, Catalonia Radio (the program “The Internauta”), The vanguard i TVE, among others. It is considered one of the pioneers of the Internet in Catalonia. L’any 1994 created the first internet information system and the Catalan Countries Spain, named Weather Online. L’any 1995 founded Infopista (first directory website in Catalan), which later transformed into electronic newspaper in Catalan, VilaWeb.

He currently heads the electronic newspaper and VilaWeb, besides publishing its editorial, writes weekly newspapers Today, He 9 sports and New. He has published books Catalonia in the military strategy of the West (1987), The nationalists in the USSR (1988), The revolta Nacionalista in the USSR (1991), Atlas of Europe future (1991), Catalonia 3.0 (2001), 11-M: Journalism in Crisis (2004, amb Alaska Otamendi) and quantum journalism. In June 2009 published Notebook Beijing, the first book in Catalan commercial email without print edition. This year, 2013, recently published book In a span of independence presented the past day 30 d’octubre a Brussel·les. Vice President of the European Journalism Center, based in Maastricht, member of the board of the Catalan PEN and a member of the advisory board of the Foundation of the UOC.

Lecture in Catalan / Valencian. Free entrance.