It continues in its line of changes of the staff. Until Thursday, a journalist and head of National Telecinco news for almost two decades, Rosa Lerchundi Ariceta (San Sebastián, 1965), will be the new head of communication of the Casa del Rey replacing Jordi Gutiérrez Roldán (Barcelona, 66 years old), who had a decade in office and more than three in the bosom of La Zarzuela. It is a change that responds to the desires of the new head of the house, which has been in office for a year and a half, to renew the way of communicating in the State Headquarters and making a clear commitment to the and him.
At the end of last March, Villarino and Gutiérrez began to value the idea of carrying out a change in this department of the King’s house. It was Gutierrez himself who, despite being happy and proud in office, understood that new times approach and made available the leadership of a fundamental team in the institution.
The head of the house picked up the glove and the official change will be effective on September 1. A date that also coincides with the premiere of the New Chief of the Secretariat of the Queen. Lerchundi, who was a parliamentary and political correspondent in Telecinco, will not be, however, the first woman to lead the communication of the King’s house. Asunción Valdés dealt with that department between 1993 and 2003. When joining, in the organization chart of the Royal House there will be five women and six men in managerial positions.
Gutierrez, also a training and profession journalist, began his professional career specialized in political information in written press in 1977, but also on radio and on television. The universal news, RNE in Catalonia, TVE in Catalonia and TV3 are some of the media in which who is now and until next September head of communication of the King’s House, where he joined in 1993, he has worked.
Lerchundi, a degree in Journalism from the University of the Basque Country in 1988, will take over from the communication team that Gutierrez leaves continuing with the line started a year and a half ago by the Royal House to propose civil and medium -sized women to occupy key positions in the gear of the institution. Sources from La Zarzuela, however, say there were candidates men who reached the selection process to very advanced.
