From 1975 to 1980 he worked at the newspaper "ABC", writing the Sunday section on political analysis called "Crónica de la Semana". On 17 June 1980, at 28 years old, he was appointed editor of the newspaper "Diario 16", then selling barely 15,000 copies and threatened with closure. However, within two years the newspaper had reached a circulation of 100,000 copies, and five years after that it would attain 150,000, according to figures of the OJD, the Office of Circulation Verification.