Soledad Gallego-Díaz
Soledad Gallego-Díaz | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Gallego-Díaz in 2016 | |
| Born | 1951 (age 72–73) Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Title | Editor, El País |
| Term | June 2018 – present |
| Predecessor | Antonio Caño |
| Awards | Cirilo Rodríguez Journalism Award (2010) |
Soledad Gallego-Díaz (born 1951) is a Spanish journalist, and the editor of Spanish newspaper El País since June 2018.
Biography
Born in Madrid in 1951, she lived for a year in Palo Alto and another year in Nashville when she was a toddler.[1] She took studies at the Official School of Journalism of Madrid. She worked for Pyresa and Cuadernos para el Diálogo before joining El País shortly after the foundation of the newspaper in 1976.[1]
She has been correspondent in Brussels, Paris, London, Buenos Aires and New York.[2]
She won the Cirilo Rodríguez Journalism Award in 2010.[3]
Her appointment as the first-ever female editor of El País was announced in June 2018.[4] She succeeded Antonio Caño, who had been the editor since 2014.[4]
Before becoming the editor of El País she also collaborated in Hoy por hoy and was a member of the editorial board of ctxt.es.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Soledad Gallego-Díaz se convierte en la primera mujer que dirigirá El País". eldiario.es. 5 June 2018.
- ^ a b Peláez, Raquel (5 June 2018). "La infancia de Soledad Gallego-Díaz y su periplo por Norteamérica". revistavanityfair.es.
- ^ "Soledad Gallego-Díaz gana el premio Cirilo Rodríguez". ABC (in Spanish). Segovia. 29 May 2010. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- ^ a b Jones, Sam (8 June 2018). "Spain's El País newspaper appoints first female editor". theguardian.com. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
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