Journalism to understand Torredembarra
Torrent journalist Jordi Salvat publishes a book with a compilation of the town's political chronicles.
Tarragona"Who writes the scripts for torrential politics?" asks journalist Jordi Salvat Rovira in one of the articles that form part of the compilation he has selected for publication. Various thoughts 2. This is the second part of another work published in 2011, and together they form the best possible guide to understanding Torredembarra. In this municipality of less than 20,000 inhabitants, political reporting, which is Salvat's specialty, has absolutely everything.
In this new volume, which features a prologue by journalist and writer Antoni Batista and reviews the chronicles published by the author between 2011 and 2025, political defection is the real deal in a municipality where up to fourteen different lists were presented; where four mayors did not complete their terms; and where the Civil Guard entered the City Hall in 2014 to remove the then-Convergent mayor and five other councilors for a corruption scheme that led to an investigation into the illegal financing of the 3% CDC. Local politics is always one of the easiest and most rewarding ways to understand what happens next in national politics, and these chronicles by Salvat are yet another example. They also serve as a reminder that, aside from honesty, the best vaccine against the threat of newspapers' possible disappearance is local journalism.
Aware that some readers of the book are unfamiliar with Torrenca politics, at the beginning of each article, the current editor of Torredembarra News has added an introductory paragraph that provides context and greatly helps to follow the thread of the work.
Faced with the political absurdity of this decade and a half, the author constantly repeats in his articles that "politics is not about personalities." This mantra comes from someone who, out of love for his municipality, has done what he knows best over the years to do his part to try to improve things. When he explains the Civil Guard searches at the Town Hall, a major news story that appeared in every newspaper and television channel, the author's disappointment clearly outweighs his professional excitement at events of this magnitude: "What until a few days ago was a media spectacle for cities as far away or not so far away as Marbella Torredembarra," he explains, clearly saddened.
Journalistic Review
Throughout these political chronicles, the author also recalls the different journalistic publications that have been in Torredembarra, such as The Ferris Wheel, Torredembarra in the Moment, Tower Newspaper and the Baix Gaià Diary, in digital format, among others. Media that, throughout this time, have allowed journalists like Jordi Salvat to explain everything happening in the capital of Baix Gaià.
