Fifty of EL PAÍS’s more than 426,000 subscribers arrived at the newspaper’s Madrid headquarters last Friday afternoon for a meeting with its editor-in-chief, Jan Martínez Ahrens. Jan Martínez Ahrens (center) on Friday during a meeting with EL PAÍS subscribers. It began with his conversations about Julian Assange with EL PAÍS journalist Joseba Elola, who at the time was part of the Domingo supplement team directed by Martínez Ahrens. He replied that the editorial line of EL PAÍS has been set since its founding. “For me, power is influence,” Martínez Ahrens replied.