The bullfighting journalist Miguel Ángel Moncholi died yesterday at the age of 70 in Madrid after a long illness.
Doctor in Journalism from the Complutense University, an Antena de Oro, three ATV awards and two Ondas, among other awards, endorse a career that he developed for almost 30 years on Telemadrid, the public television of the Community of Madrid, where he worked as a reporter and bullfighting commentator from 1989 to 2018. Before, he had worked on Cadena SER (1973-19175) and had been a reporter for the newspaper Ya and Abc. Starting in the 1980s, he began to dedicate himself to bullfighting information as coordinator of the ‘Los Toros’ program on Cadena SER under the direction of Manuel Molés.
He was a professor in countless master’s degrees and specialization courses, as well as Dean of the Faculty of Information Sciences at the Camilo José Cela University. He taught classes at different Spanish and foreign universities in postgraduate programs, always linked to the area of Communication, and since 2002 he directed the Bullfighting Journalism Course of the Wellington Foundation (previously with the collaboration of the Joselito Foundation) which was a breeding ground for bullfighting journalists from various countries.
He also worked for the Spanish Red Cross, where he became a manager as national deputy director and director of Public Relations and Protocol.
On January 2, he received a tribute in the Plaza de Las Ventas, in which the Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Interior of the Community of Madrid, Carlos Novillo, highlighted Moncholi’s contribution to the dissemination of bullfighting, and highlighted that “for more than 50 years, a lifetime, he has dedicated himself to bringing the world of bullfighting to society through the media.” Regarding his teaching work, Novillo pointed out that Moncholi instilled “values of rigor, respect, knowledge and love for one of the deepest cultural manifestations of our land.”