Gemma Nierga

Gemma Nierga Barris (Gerona, November 1, 1965) is a Spanish journalist who has spent most of her professional career as a radio and television presenter. From September 2012 to June 2017, she directed and presented, together with Pepa Bueno, Hoy por Hoy of Cadena SER, the leading audience program on Spanish radio.

Biography

She has a degree in Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She became known in 1984 as the presenter of a film program on Radio Vilassar de Dalt. She and she was also on Calella Televisión del Maresme, Barcelona. In 1985 she went to Cadena 13 in Barcelona, after which she joined TV3 to present the show Dit i fet between 1987 and 1989.

In 1987 he joined Radio Barcelona of Cadena SER. She began as a reporter on a morning program, and later moved to the night schedule, creating the program Hablar por hablar , which began to be broadcast for the SER Catalunya stations and, since 1994, throughout Spain. She has also done cultural, event and interview spaces at SER, especially within the news program Hora 25.

At the same time, he continued presenting various programs on TV3 such as Tres senyores i un senyor, Pares i fills and Tothom per tothom (all of them premiered in 1993). Later, in 1995, she presented the program El destino en sus manos on Spanish Television and, in 1997, Hablando con Gemma , broadcast on the regional channels Canal Nou, Telemadrid, Euskal Telebista and Canal Sur.

He was awarded the Ondas Award in 1997 for the program Hablar por hablar. She is also the author of the book of the same title, in which she collects experiences lived throughout the space with which Nierga managed to take over the leadership of the audience at dawn.

In 1997, after the departure of Javier Sardá, he took charge of the program La ventana of Cadena SER, audience leader in its time slot. With this program he has won the Ondas Internacional de radio 2000 Award for the children's gathering.

Following the assassination of his colleague and friend Ernest Lluch on November 21, 2000, by the terrorist group ETA, he was the subject of great controversy when he made the following statements at the demonstration in rejection of the murder:

"I am convinced that Ernest, even with the person who killed him would have tried to dialogue: you, who can, please dialogue".

Pujol, in his second memoirs, recalls the demonstration and the words of the journalist. Words addressed to José María Aznar, who asked the President of the Generalitat «And with whom do I have to talk?». «Aznar had already spoken with ETA during a truce that had ended in failure. Now ETA had just killed the person who from the other ideological sensibility also supported the desire for dialogue. The journalist's words were well received by the people, but they were neither realistic nor fair”, Jordi Pujol maintains in his memoirs.

In July 2004, she married José Antonio Cabanillas, deputy mayor for Izquierda Unida (IU) in the city of Córdoba, where she went to reside. On September 28, 2005, her son Pau was born. On October 24, 2007, coinciding with the death of her mother, it was announced that the journalist received the Ondas Award for her career. Gemma had already been in charge of La ventana for 10 years.

In 2005, the Observatory Against Domestic and Gender Violence recognized his work with the Recognition Award for his work in the eradication of domestic and gender violence in the media.

After a decade away from television, on April 11, 2008, he premiered on La 1 de Televisión Española the weekly talk show Ya te vale, an adaptation of the BBC program What Kids Really Think?, where a group of children interviewed various famous guests. This program came to be a national reproduction of No em ratllis on TV3, which Julia Otero, her competitor,, presented in the Catalan regional. On TVE the program lasted two months, with low audience levels, although in Catalonia it was a resounding success. The Galician journalist follows him, in addition, subtracting followers according to the EGM.

Since September 2008, she has once again lived in Barcelona (together with her husband and son Pau), from where she presented and directed the daily program La ventana on Cadena SER. During the first months of the 2009 season, she was replaced by Marta González Novo, due to the birth of her second child: Arnau.

In April 2012, the docu-reality of the Sexta premiered Baby Boom, the Spanish version of the Channel 4 program One Born Every Minute, narrated by herself, and since September 3 of that year, together with Pepa Bueno, he presents the Cadena SER program Hoy por hoy, a program in which he remains until July 2017, when SER informs him that it is not I would renew his contract.

In November 2017, it was announced that he was signed by 8tv for the electoral campaign of Catalonia before the elections called for December 21. In January 2018, he signed by Telecinco to collaborate on The Ana Rosa program. Since March 2018, she has presented the space My parents on TV3.

In 2017, he received the Non-Sexist Communication Award for his entire career. The prize is awarded by the Association of Women Journalists of Catalonia.

As of September 2020, he presents the programs Cafè d'idees on TVE Cataluña and Els meus pares on TV3.