Angela Rodicio

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

Life and work 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.

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.

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.

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

Acknowledgements 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. This award is dedicated to all those reporters who work in foreign parts.

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."