Papel

Benjamín Sarabia is a veteran reporter who cannot conceive of his life without going down to the corner kiosk on an empty stomach to buy his newspaper. Luz Perea is a millennial journalist who gets out of bed every day with her cell phone in hand to take a look at the latest news about her. The two make their way as symbols of disparate worlds, the analog of ink and the digital of screens, in the newsroom of a medium beset by financial difficulties and falling sales; besieged by the voracity of political and economic interests that threaten its independence and impose censorship and self-censorship. Luz and Benjamín are immersed in a dizzying transformation, with their sights set on the decadence and uncertain future that treats journalists as merchandise, amid precarious contracts, cuts, layoffs and a black future against which they fight with professionalism and idealism. . Added to all this is the increasingly virulent empire of misinformation and hoaxes. An entire threat to democratic coexistence with the spread of false news, capable of corrupting some journalists with their guard down and raw disenchantment. Papel is the first novel written in Spanish that deals in depth with the challenges of journalism and all the crossroads it faces in this 21st century. An action-packed choral novel that tells from within the story of a newspaper and its professionals as they seek their place in the world amidst discouragement and the noblest aspirations of their craft.