Augusto Itúrburu Carabajo (Guayaquil, Ecuador; 1979 or 1980 – 15 April 2020) was an Ecuadorian teacher and sports journalist, known to his colleagues with the surname Tururú; he worked for the newspaper El Telégrafo.
[1] During the Soccer World Cup 2014, the newspaper ordered the preparation of supplements with 16 daily pages about the event, called Fanático, in which Itúrburu specialized in reporting on the statistics of the matches, meticulously investigating to corroborate and contrast the information.
[1] In 2016 he conducted a series of interviews of athletes from past eras, such as Segundo Mercado, Cristhian Mora, Bertoni Zambrano, Alfonso Obregón, Marcelo Morales, and Erwin Ramírez, resulting in an increase in the number of readers of the newspaper.
[5][6] He was admitted for respiratory complications at IESS Hospital Los Ceibos on 23 March and obtained the results of the test, which came back positive, when he was already in serious condition.
[5] The Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security issued a statement, where they stated that internal investigations would be carried out to clarify the facts and contacted the journalist's family to provide their support and coordinate actions due to what happened.