27. In the 90s, in the newsroom, a man was seen passing by handing out miniature perfumes to the secretaries. She wanted to pay attention to the talent of her daughter, who dreamed of being a star. The only one who seemed convinced of the virtues of the little girl was Olguita Emiliani. And he was not mistaken: the girl’s name was Shakira Isabel Mebarak.

28. A Bad Day Ulysses Rodriguez, graphic designer, published a table of contents with erroneous data. I expected a terrific sighting the next day. When the moment of truth arrived, Al-Qaeda attacked the twin towers and the commotion and work in the newsroom was such that their bosses forgot the mistake. Today, he says, from the same post, that he has a job thanks to Osama Bin Laden.

29. “Good morning, miss, what a beautiful voice you have and how nice it is to be assisted by such a sweet and adorable voice at this hour and with such an inclement sun of Barranquilla”, a man at the other end of the phone flirted with Anita Gonzalez, Management assistant. He immediately asked to be put on the phone with the editor of the newspaper and introduced himself as Gabriel García Márquez, which Anita didn’t like at all. The man was so insistent that she finally gave him the warning not to continue teasing him. The big piece of phone ended up being, in fact, our Nobel Prize in Literature in its facet of mamagallista.

30. Older employees say, and those who do night shiftsthat some nights the figure of ‘paquito’, a newspaper employee who died several years ago and was very fond of the company. The ghost of HERALD.

31. In November 2010, the editorial staff “moved” for nearly two months to the South Atlantic to cover the tragedy of the Canal del Dique breach.

32. Many times we have been confused with THE HERALDO of Honduras, León and Aragón (Spain), Linares (Chile), Ambato (Ecuador) and especially in Mexico, where there are more than five “Heraldos”: Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, Chiapas, Aguascalientes and Chihuahua (Mexico).

33. Raúl Castro, social photographer several years ago went to take pictures at an event at the Country Club. There, he decided to divide the women when taking the photos with this sentence: “The young women here and the vicars there! “. The offended ladies called to complain and Castro had to leave office.

34. On his birthday: September 14, Edward Garciawho was a correspondent in Cordoba, went to cover a moto-taxi demonstration in Montería which heated up with the presence of ESMA. Armed protesters seized his camera. García, in a bold act, ran after the young men and offered to give them 30,000 pesos to return his equipment. They accepted. Then he ran as fast as he could through the stones and sticks that the thieves themselves threw at him.

35. Rafaelito Páez went to take social photos for a wedding in the Hotel Le Prado and he wasn’t wearing the proper lens, so he began asking the couple to go “a bit deeper” unaware of how close to the pool the newlyweds ended up falling into. He was suspended for two months.

36. The Photographer Michel Villarreal He became famous in the press room because he only delivered a photo of the cover he was doing. Faced with a reprimand from the editorial staff, he said he asked the journalist how many photos they were going to publish. “One,” they replied. From that moment on, he characterized himself by revealing only one photo of each news. Her daughter Josephine is currently the head of photography

37. In the journalism of yesteryear, there was the position of Headline, the person in charge of reading the articles and giving them the best title. EL HERALDO prides itself on having had in this position Gabriel Garcia Marquez, German Vargas, John Gossain Yes Jean Goenaga.

38. In 2012, it was announced on the front page of EL HERALDO the supposed visit of Bill Gates to Colombia. Ernest McCausland apologized after learning that the character in the photo was not the American businessman.

39. During the 2010 elections, Dumas de la Hoz, one of the presenters of EL HERALDO, launched his candidacy for the Council of Palmar de Varela for the second time. I am not elected.

40. For many years, it was customary for the whole press room to agree to dress in the same color before the carnival and go out to celebrate a kind of secret troupe. In recent years, EL HERALDO has staged a troupe at La Guacherna.

41. In the EL HERALDO newsroom, Marco Schwartz Rodacki and Ernesto McCausland pranked the reporter Manuel Perez. He was deceived to go to the casting of the movie “The Mission” with Robert De Niro. In the end, he was selected to play an Indian from the Amazon and traveled with the cast to Brazil.

42. Whatever the situation, EL HERALDO always informs. In January 2020, the journalist Javier Mendozathe photograph Hansel Vasquez and the cameraman Alfredo ArizaThey made a note about The bird empire in Soledad, when they were broken into and the equipment was stolen. However, the photographer was able to delete the memory earlier and the column could be published, winning a prize in the contest of the Barranquilla Carnival.