He was one of the founding members of the political magazine Cuadernos para el Dialogo and worked from 1963 to 1975 as a senior worker and deputy editor of daily newspaper Pueblo and Informaciones de Madrid.[4]
He was the founding editor of the daily newspaper El País, in which he edited from 1976 and 1988.[2]
Between 1986 and 1988 he was the chairman of the International Press Institute (I.P.I) .[citation needed]
In December 1996, Cebrián was elected to Seat V of the Real Academia Española, and took up his seat in May 1997.[1]
He was chairman of PRISA from 2012 to 2017.[5][6]
Details of his dismissal were not clear in 2017.[7]
Cebrián left all his executive positions in PRISA on May 21, 2018.[citation needed]
Since May 2017, Cebrian has been vice president of the Asociación de Medios de Información (AMI), chaired by Javier Moll.[8]
In April 2024, Cebrián was dismissed as honorary president of El País, after he signed on to the digital periodical "The Objective".[9][10]
Cebrián managed the news service Televisión Española.[citation needed]
Various international media have considered Cebrián one of the ten most influential Spaniards in Spain and Latin America for 44 years (from 1976 to 2019).[citation needed]
He has been the only Hispanic academic member of the Bilderberg Club and the only Spanish-speaking member with executive functions in that organization.[citation needed]
Between 1980 and 2016 Cebrián published 19 books in Spanish consisting of fiction and essay based writing, including the first part of his memoirs.[citation needed]
