Olga Rodríguez
Olga Rodríguez Francisco (born 1975) is a Spanish journalist and author, specialised in the Middle East and human rights.
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Olga Rodríguez

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- Birth Name
- Olga Rodríguez Francisco
- Birthplace
- León, Spain
- Born
- 1975
- Education
- Complutense University of Madrid
- Occupation
- * Journalist
- Nationality
- Spain
- Languages
- Spanish
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• Birth Name — Olga Rodríguez Francisco • Birthplace — León, Spain • Born — 1975 • Education — Complutense University of Madrid • Occupation — * Journalist • writer • Children — 1
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Olga Rodríguez, recorded as a journalist, was born in 1975 in León. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Biography
Biography
Born in León in 1975 to journalist parents, she moved to Valladolid as a teenager, later moving to Madrid to study at the university. She earned a licentiate degree in Information Sciences (Journalism) from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). She earned early recognition for her chronicles of the Iraq War on Cadena SER, also working for Cuatro and CNN+. She was a direct witness of the killing of Spanish journalist José Couso in April 2003 in the Palestine Hotel of Baghdad. She was also stationed in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Jordan. She was one of the co-founders of eldiario.es in 2012, and worked there, as press ombudswoman and deputy director. In 2017, after several years of relationship and a daughter in common, she married actor Juan Diego Botto, with whom she co-penned the screenplay of the film On the Fringe, shot in 2021.
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La periodista Olga Rodriguez en el hotel Palestine de Bagdad, durante la invasión de Irak
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La periodista Olga Rodriguez en Bagdad, tras un bombardeo estadounidense, marzo 2003
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- 1.La periodista Olga Rodríguez, premiada en Italia por su defensa de los derechos humanos.
- 2.La periodista de eldiario.es Olga Rodríguez, premio a la libertad de expresión.
- 3.OPINAR. Periódico electrónico de OPI. Leticia Alonso: Aquí Bagdad: Olga Rodríguez relata su experiencia en la guerra de Irak.
- 4.Olga Rodríguez subraya el papel de los periodistas en las guerras. 1134-6582.
- 5.Cuatro periodistas testigos de la muerte de Couso tildan de "inaceptable" el uso de su testimonio por la Audiencia. 1134-6582.
- 6.Casa del libro: Olga Rodríguez: Yo muero hoy. Las revueltas en el mundo árabe
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