ARA Balears has actively participated in l'Acampallengua 2026. In addition to the special elaborated this weekend (which has been distributed at all the key points), this newspaper has also organized a journalism workshop, which has been a success in terms of participation, and Aina Vidal, one of the journalists from this media outlet, has participated in the roundtable discussion 'Journalism in debate'.

He says of him that, as a teenager, he was "fun, chatty, funny, and a really good person." They would go out for walks after dark to some of Palma's classic bars: Es Carreró, Sa Font. Sometimes they would also go to Gomila: "And he would chat with everyone, he was very articulate, and he would go from group to group meeting people. Now perhaps he's lost a little of his charm, but he's still a sweetheart," says Pedro Moll, one of the friends the journalist—winner of the Ciutat de Palma novel prize—still keeps in touch with from his teenage years, laughing throughout the conversation. They grew up in Palma and didn't live far from each other: Jaume Oliver lived in the neighborhood near the bullring, and Pedro lived near Blanquerna. Since they became friends in the schoolyard (they weren't in the same class because Jaume is a year older than Pedro), they spent many evenings together. Pedro recounts that the now writer and journalist used to play hockey, in the version that is without skates (but with stickThey played volleyball together for a while, but that didn't last long either. What they did enjoy together was hiking, but don't think they went out every week: "Out of every ten times we got together, one ended up being a hike. It wasn't like it is now. We could improvise much more: the mountain huts were open, you didn't have to book, you could be more adventurous. We'd make it last longer," the friend recalls.

Czech director Michal Pazderka won the 3rd Alberta Giménez Higher Education Center (CESAG) Social Documentary Festival, and Judit Arbona Espejo, a third-year Journalism student, won the 16th Alberta Giménez Journalism Prize. Both awards are supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation through Caixabank. The prizes were presented this Tuesday at a ceremony at the university center.

She was more into Blur than the Spice Girls; more into Oasis than Britney Spears (although she did play the occasional song by both). The explanation is simple, and anyone familiar with the scene will understand: when she started going out on weekends, she frequented the Plaça de sa Pobla bar, a hangout for young people from Sa Pobla and other nearby towns. Within the walls of this bar, Magdalena Serra (Sa Pobla, 1983), a journalist and presenter of the program... Now we're going From IB3, she danced to the songs of Blur, Oasis and REM, and made the song her own. At dawn from The Rebel Strawberries. They sang it at the top of their lungs with their friend Maria Bel Cladera, who brings us closer to the journalist's childhood and adolescence.

Miguel Soler passed away this Thursday in Palma at the age of 86, leaving a profound legacy as a leading figure in radio and musical culture in the Balearic Islands. Soler was a key figure in the emergence of new sounds in the 1960s, and his career at Radio Mallorca and in print media influenced generations of listeners and readers. Born in Murcia on March 16, 1939, Soler moved to Mallorca at a young age, where he made the island his home and built a journalistic and radio career that made him an icon of popular culture. In the early 1960s, with the arrival of modern music, he began his time at Radio Mallorca, where he presented programs that introduced artists and styles previously unknown to the general public in the Balearic Islands.

He was a wonderful child, a perfect child: he never lied, he was calm and polite, everything went well for him, he was happy. When he was scolded, very occasionally, he would refer to himself in the third person, we are told. He was born when his mother was 20 and his father 23, and they say that they would take him to the disco and the baby would remain peacefully dozing in his stroller. He ate well, studied and got good grades, he was quite good at soccer (which has been his passion and obsession all his life) and he enjoys playing the piano. Being a journalist was one of his childhood dreams and, almost without realizing it, he must be celebrating twenty years in the profession. He is Pedro Sánchez (Palma, 1985) and his sister, Neus Sánchez, who is seven years younger than him, tells us about him.

This idea has been taking hold in my head for some time now: journalism has definitively mutated into activism. And if not, how can I explain why I should agree to do a double-page interview in exchange for 60 euros? That's what I asked myself a couple of months ago, when I received a proposal from a Catalan-language music magazine. "We know it's not much, but oh well..." they argued, as if offering condolences for a completely unavoidable loss, as if more could have been done, as if no further explanation were needed. I'm fine: it's not much, but so what? But can your medium only survive if you offer lower wages than the plumber's minimum travel charge? But should I practically have to pay you guys to be able to interview this gem of an artist? But I already know that, nevertheless, this won't feed me? While I would have loved to ask all these questions, one isn't that punkish, and I actually resolved it with a cowardly "Sorry, I'm really scatterbrained and won't have time to do the interview." I admit I'm good at playing dumb, but I didn't expect them to still outdo me by offering me the option of handing it in a few days later, as if that were the problem.

The Association of Journalists of the Balearic Islands (APIB) has launched the second edition of its project to promote newspaper reading among young people, which offers a free quarterly subscription to a Balearic newspaper. This initiative, subsidized by the Government's General Directorate for Youth, includes all the Balearic Islands' newspapers and is therefore a great opportunity to obtain a free quarterly subscription to ARA Baleares, the Catalan-language newspaper of the Balearic Islands. You'll find the subscription link here.

The Public Broadcasting Entity of the Balearic Islands (EPRTVIB) does not require a degree in Journalism to work. This is according to the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB) of August 12, which states: detail the bases of the call for the selection of personnel for the creation of a pool of editors for the News Content Department at IB3, for temporary employment contracts in Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera.

Surely Miquel dels Sants Oliver wasn't referring to him when he lamented that Mallorcans had "such an accommodating attitude" and doubted their ability to embrace modernity. Josep Tous Ferrer, born in Palma in 1859, was exactly the opposite: a journalist, printer, editor, businessman, cultural and urban promoter, and enthusiastic about what were then new inventions, such as cinema, aviation, and the automobile. A true visionary whom we remember on the 75th anniversary of his death, on August 29, 1950.