As part of our collaboration with the Aladina Foundation through volunteering, on Wednesday 22 March we held an online workshop with children and young people with cancer, this time led by a very special volunteer: Sandra Golpe Cantalejo, presenter of the Antena 3 Noticias midday news programme. The participants who connected from the hospital or from their homes were able to sneak onto some of the Atresmedia Group's sets and experience first-hand the process of producing the news.

In this workshop, Sandra Golpe put on her volunteer T-shirt and took them around the Atresmedia headquarters to show them what television is like from the inside and the process of making a news programme. The activity was full of surprises: the young people were able to meet other well-known presenters such as Esther Vaquero, Vicente Vallés and Roberto Brasero, and discover Sandra's funniest anecdotes from all her years of experience as a television journalist.

The make-up room was the starting point for this guided tour, in which they learned about all the steps Sandra takes every day in her work. Once they arrived at the Antena 3 Noticias set, they met their fellow journalists who work in the different newsrooms: society, economy, international... who explained how the news is edited and prepared to be broadcast on the news.

Finally, Sandra Golpe sat down at the table from which she presents the news to the whole country and answered all the questions from the children of the Aladina Foundation, sharing with them the funniest curiosities and anecdotes from the live broadcasts and reminding them how important it is to work as a team.

More than two years “Together from home”

This workshop is part of the online leisure programme “Together from home” (Juntos desde casa) that was set up by the Aladina Foundation when the pandemic began, and which Atresmedia Volunteers joined in order to replace our face-to-face visits to the hospitals with online activities, so that they could continue to feel our closeness and affection, albeit through screens.

Over the last two years, through various online workshops organised by Atresmedia Volunteers from different departments, cancer patients have been able to find out how work is done in the media and what is behind the cameras and microphones.