Notable person

Luís Álvarez Pousa, Journalist and Professor from Vila de Rei (Trasmiras)

Luís Álvarez Pousa (Vila de Rei, Trasmiras, 1948) is a journalist, tenured professor of Specialised Journalism at the USC, editor of the magazine Tempos Novos and creator of the Ourense Film Days in 1973.

Born: Vila de Rei (Trasmiras), 1948
Profession: journalist and university professor
Magazine: Tempos Novos (founded in 1997)
Thesis: Prensa e identidade na sociedade da información (1998)

Luís Álvarez Pousa was born in Vila de Rei (Trasmiras) on 8 March 1948 and is a Galician journalist and professor. A graduate in Theology from the Comillas Pontifical University and in Journalism from the Complutense, and holder of a doctorate in Contemporary History from the USC with a thesis on Prensa e identidade na sociedade da información (1998), he was a tenured professor of Specialised Journalism in the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the USC until his retirement in 2018 ^[1].

Journalism and culture

He worked for 23 years at La Voz de Galicia, where he was the first political correspondent of the Transition and created and edited, until 1984, the first culture supplement; in the Voz Group he was general coordinator of Video Voz-TV and of Multimedia Voz. He edits the monthly magazine Tempos Novos, which he launched in 1997 with 150 other people from all over Galicia. In 1973 he created the Ourense Film Days (Xornadas do Cine de Ourense), which he directed until 1978 and which promoted the first tribute in his lifetime to Carlos Velo ^[1].