Lorenzo Milá
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Journalist
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. He is the son of José Luis Milá Sagnier, count of Montseny
Montseny
Montseny is a mountain range west of the coastal hills north of Barcelona. It is part of the Catalan Pre-Coastal Range.-Features:The Montseny massif is located within a triangle formed by the AP-7, C-17 and C-25 roads. It has the highest mountains in the area south of the Pyrenees and dominates...
; younger brother of Mercedes Milá
Mercedes Milá
María Mercedes Milá Mencos is a Spanish television presenter and journalist, most notable for her work on Spain's Telecinco's Gran Hermano, the Spanish version of the reality television series Big Brother.- Biography :...
(also a TV journalist); and married to Sagrario Ruiz de Apodaca (also a TV journalist), with three children.
Milá obtained his Information Sciences degree in 1978 at the University of Barcelona
University of Barcelona
The University of Barcelona is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. It is a member of the Coimbra Group, LERU, European University Association, Mediterranean Universities Union, International Research Universities Network and Vives Network...
. His career started as a sports journalist, working as an editor for the newspaper Sport
Sport (newspaper)
Sport is a Spanish daily sports newspaper based in Barcelona, Spain. Founded in 1979, it is owned by Grupo Zeta, who also publishes El Periódico de Catalunya....
. From 1986 onwards, he started to collaborate on various TVE game shows. Between 1988 and '89, he lived in London
London
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and worked for Screensport
Screensport
Screensport was a pan-European sports television channel. The network was launched as a stand-alone channel in Manchester on 29th March 1984 and later acquired by the WH Smith Television Group in 1987...
. After that he returned to Spain and kept working at the Sant Cugat TVE center in the sports area.
In 1994, Milá moved to Madrid
Madrid
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to anchor the newly created news broadcasts on TVE2, La 2 Noticias, which he headed until 2003. These broadcasts had a fresh style and were generally perceived to be more independent and less government-biased than those of the Telediario
Telediario
Telediario is a flagship television news programme, produced by the Spanish public service broadcaster Televisión Española . Three news programmes a day are broadcast domestically on TVE1 and internationally on TVE Internacional...
on TVE1, and both Milá and the program received many awards.
From September 2003 to September 2004, Milá was sent to Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, as an adjunct foreign correspondent
Foreign correspondent
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, accompanying his wife, who was the main correspondent there. After that, Carmen Caffarel, new managing director of RTVE (appointed by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...
, then in office) appoints Milá to become the main anchor of the nightly TVE1 Telediario, in a bid to overtake the Antena 3
Antena 3 (Spain)
Antena 3 is a Spanish terrestrial television channel owned by Antena 3 de Televisión. Some of the more popular programmes broadcast by Antena 3 include Aquí no hay quien viva, El Barco, Los Protegidos, Los Simpson and El Internado....
newscasts (anchored by the popular Matías Prats) in the ratings, and recover the Telediario's leading position (lost in June 2003). This was finally achieved in 2007.
In addition to anchoring the Telediario, Milá also hosts the newly created program Tengo una pregunta para usted ("I have a question for you"), in which the audience on the set asks questions to politicians. This show has achieved the highest ratings ever in Spain for a program of political content.