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Ángela Rodicio

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Ángela Rodicio
Born
María Ángeles Rodríguez González

(1963-03-06) March 6, 1963 (age 61)
San Cristóbal of Regodeigón, Ribadavia, Spain
NationalitySpanish
OccupationJournalist
Years active1989-present
PartnerLuis Carlos García-Revenga[1]

María Ángeles Rodríguez González, known as Ángela Rodicio (born 6 March 1963 in Ribadavia, Spain) is a Foreign Affairs reporter for the Spanish public Television (TVE) program Informe Semanal.

Life and work

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Ángela Rodicio graduated with a degree in Journalism by the Complutense University of Madrid. She has worked for Spanish newspapers like Diario 16, El Independiente, Faro de Vigo, La Voz de Galicia, CNN and BBC. In addition, she took specialization courses at international universities, such as Fordham University of New York City.[2]

In 1988 she covered Middle East, she entered in TVE in 1989, and she also worked for Informe Semanal. She covered the Gulf War in 1990.[3]

In 1992 she became the correspondent in Central and Eastern Europe, but she had her office in Budapest. She covered the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Bosnian War until 1996 and she spent a long time in Sarajevo.[3] During that year she opened the first correspondence office in Jerusalem.[3]

She has been the author and scriptwriter of the documentary In the Name of Ala. In one hour she takes a look at the Islam radicalism and how believers are able to immolate themselves in the name of their god. The documentary was awarded with the golden nymph in the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 2002.

She also worked in newspapers such as Diario 16 and El Independiente, and she collaborated in international journals such as Limes.[3]

Other books

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The war without fronts (1998)

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Ending Garden (2012) (Spanish: El jardín del fin. Un viaje por el Irán de ayer y hoy) is a trip through the history, culture and politics of Iran. The Ending Garden, in the outskirts of Kashan, is the best conserved space of all ancient Persian Gardens. This fact serves Ángela Rodicio to explain why this place contains the principles and the historic essence of Iran. The reporter places the actual problems of Iran in the Russian and English colonial influence over the territory in the early 20th century, travelling through the popular revolts of 2009 and Ahmadinejad's Coup d'état.[4][5]

In 2005 he wrote Acabar con el personaje in which she explains her dismissed in TVE.[6]

Acknowledgements

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Ángela Rodicio has received many prizes in recognition of her work as a correspondent.

In 1992, she won the Cirilo Rodríguez Journalism Award for best Spanish correspondent abroad.[7] This award is dedicated to all those reporters who work in foreign parts.[8]

The same year, Rodicio also won the Víctor de la Serna journalism prize granted by the Madrid Press Association (Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid). The prize was created in 1974, in honor of Víctor de la Serna y Espina. This award is given in recognition of the best journalistic labor during the year.

Ten years later, in 2002, Ángela Rodicio received the prize from the Association of Foreign Journalists in Spain (Asociación de Periodistas Extranjeros en España) for best correspondent.

In November 2011, the International prize María Grazia Cutuli of journalism, in its seventh edition, was granted, in the category of Foreign Press, to Ángela Rodicio. The gala is celebrated in Catania, the Sicilian city where María Grazia Cutuli was born. The prize is dedicated to Cutuli, journalist from Il Corriere della Sera who lost her life in Afghanistan in 2001 along with other three journalists. According to the organization of the award, they granted it to Rodicio because of "the energy, the pride, the passion and the modesty of the professional of race who refuses to be tamed" and who "is a clear example of the most authentic figure of the special correspondent."[9]

References

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  1. ^ Font, Consuelo (22 February 2013). "De maestro a gestor empresarial". El Mundo (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial Información General S.L.U. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  2. ^ Mateo, Lázaro (2011). "Autores. Ángela Rodicio". Dos Passos (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 July 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d "INFORME SEMANAL - El equipo Ángela Rodicio". RTVE (in Spanish). 24 April 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Ángela Rodicio - Periodista, autora de 'El jardín del fin. Un viaje por el Irán de ayer y hoy'". El País (in Spanish). Prisa. 3 June 2011. Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  5. ^ Pastoriza, Francisco R. (29 July 2012). "Donde el paraíso". La Opinion A Coruña (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Ángela Rodicio relata en un libro su versión sobre su despido de TVE". El Mundo (in Spanish). Mundinteractivos, S.A. 28 May 2005. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  7. ^ Martín, Aurelio (31 May 1993). "El equipo de TVE en el conflicto yugoslavo, premio Cirilo Rodríguez" [The TVE Team in the Yugoslavian Conflict, Cirilo Rodríguez Award]. El País (in Spanish). Segovia. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  8. ^ "XXIX Premio "Cirilo Rodríguez" para corresponsales en el extranjero". Casa Árabe (in Spanish). 31 March 2013. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  9. ^ EFE (25 October 2011). "La periodista Ángela Rodicio gana el premio 'Maria Grazia Cutuli' de Periodismo". El Mundo (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial Información General S.L.U. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
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