Elisa Beni


Elisa Beni Uzabal is a Spanish journalist. When she took over at 23, she became the youngest newspaper director in Spain.

Biography

Elisa Beni graduated in Information Sciences from the University of Navarra. She has worked at La Voz de Almería, La Razón, Época magazine, and was editor-in-chief of the now-defunct newspaper Diario 16. She has been director of Cadena SER stations and is a regular contributor to Julia Otero's program on Onda Cero, ', as well as television programs such as ', ', ', , and Madrid al Día.
In 2001 she married for the second time, to judge, magistrate of the Audiencia Nacional. They divorced in April 2014.
In 2004 she was appointed communication director of the, a position from which she was dismissed in 2008 "for loss of confidence" following the publication, in November 2007, of the book La soledad del juzgador, about how her husband, the investigating judge of the 11-M case, had dealt with the judicial process.
In June 2014 she published a novel, Peaje de libertad.

Selected publications