Olga Rodríguez (journalist)
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1975
- Journalist
- writer
Olga Rodríguez | |
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.jpg) During a rally of Barcelona en Comú in 2015 | |
| Born | Olga Rodríguez Francisco 1975 León, Spain |
| Education | Complutense University of Madrid |
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| Children | 1 |
Olga Rodríguez Francisco (born 1975) is a Spanish journalist and author, specialised in the Middle East and human rights.
Born in León in 1975 to journalist parents, she moved to Valladolid as a teenager, later moving to Madrid to study at the university.[1][2] She earned a licentiate degree in Information Sciences (Journalism) from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).[3]
She earned early recognition for her chronicles of the Iraq War on Cadena SER,[4] also working for Cuatro and CNN+.[5] She was a direct witness of the killing of Spanish journalist José Couso in April 2003 in the Palestine Hotel of Baghdad.[6] She was also stationed in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Jordan.[7]
She was one of the co-founders of eldiario.es in 2012 and worked there as press ombudswoman and deputy director.[8][5][9]
In 2017, after several years of relationship and a daughter in common, she married actor Juan Diego Botto,[10] with whom she co-penned the screenplay of the film On the Fringe,[11] shot in 2021.
