If exactly a week ago the emblematic Galician radio presenter Pepe Domingo left us, today we received the terrible news that Marcelino Gutiérrez had died this morning in Gijón due to a heart attack.
Gutiérrez was born in San Martín del Rey Aurelio in 1975, graduated in Information Sciences from the Pontifical University of Salamanca and developed his entire professional career in Asturias.
He was definitely passionate about his work and journalism, leading the Asturian newspaper El Comercio for the last seven and a half years, after assuming the position of director in 2017 and taking over from Íñigo Noriega.
His own media outlet has dedicated an article to him as a farewell, praising his abilities and rigor, but also his dedication and commitment: “He was a lover of journalism, addicted to current affairs, tireless and incapable of discouragement on a daily basis. of the Editorial Team, not a fan of sitting in an office that always had the door open. He preferred to hang around the tables to smell what was cooking, experience the news up close, know first-hand what was happening here and there.
The journalist continued at the foot of the canyon until his last breath. This is how the article continued: “Marcelino Gutiérrez González closed the last paper edition of this newspaper last night, the one that is on newsstands today, without knowing that this unpleasant dawn would be the news.”
No one could have expected that Gutiérrez would suffer a heart attack that would prevent him from returning to the editorial office of El Comercio. Fellow journalists are still in a state of “shock”, remembering the “man who spoke softly”, the “demanding but always friendly boss”, the “born worker who worked hard every day to report more and better”.
