Juan Luis Cebrián Echarri (born 30 October 1944)[1] is a Spanish journalist and businessman, the co-founder of El País.

[3] He was one of the founding members of the political magazine Cuadernos para el Dialogo and worked from 1963 to 1975 as a senior worker and deputy editor of daily newspaper Pueblo and Informaciones de Madrid.

[8] In April 2024, Cebrián was dismissed as honorary president of El País, after he signed on to the digital periodical "The Objective".

[citation needed] Various international media have considered Cebrián one of the ten most influential Spaniards in Spain and Latin America for 44 years (from 1976 to 2019).

[citation needed] Between 1980 and 2016 Cebrián published 19 books in Spanish consisting of fiction and essay based writing, including the first part of his memoirs.