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Dani de la Orden, director of 2024 breakout “A House on Fire,” is set to adapt for Beta Fiction Spain “El director,” the best-selling non-fiction book written by David Jiménez, about his experience as editor-in-chief of Spanish daily newspaper.

A former international correspondent in Asia and war reporter, Jiménez was brought in in May 2014 supposedly to lead El Mundo’s digital transformation. What he found, however, as he recounts in “El director,” was a mutual favors pact between the newspaper and Spain’s establishment. Refusing to compromise the publication’s independence he was dismissed after just a year.

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