Bold, independent, very personal. So remember Corina Miranda and Jesús Martín, friends and colleagues Ricargo Ortega, his way of doing journalism, journalism that, today, it is very difficult to find.
From now on, the figure of Ricardo will be reflected in a book and a DVD collecting best chronicles, which led him to visit Moscow, Afghanistan, the United States and Haiti. The book also has a section in which 12 friends remember the figure of Dianense journalist. Ricardo Ortega. I leave for Haiti It was presented last week at the Press Association of Madrid by its authors, Corina Miranda and Jesús Martín, and President of APM, Fernando González Urbaneja.
The March 7 2004, journalist Ricardo Ortega was killed in Haiti while covering the country's political crisis. thus ending the life of one of the most committed journalists who knew the realities, able to convey in his chronicles what no one else dared to tell.
Ricardo Ortega told some of the most important events in recent history, as the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the war in Sarajevo or the attack on the Twin Towers in 11 2001 September.
I am sorry. He was born in Cuenca and not in Denia.
Those of us who met him in person will not forget how proud he made us feel every time his name appeared on TV ... wherever you are, Ricardo, a hug !!!