Helena Resano

María Helena Resano Lizaldre (born 9 February 1974) is a Spanish journalist who works for LaSexta. Her professional journalistic career began as an editor for the radio broadcaster Cadena SER. Resano presented a weekly programme on Pamplona Televisión before joining Radio Nacional de España in Madrid on a scholarship in 1995 and then at Telecinco between 1996 and 1999. She worked at Televisión Española from 1999 to 2006, first for 24 Horas as an editor and reporter, news bulletins on TVE1 and presenting the current affairs programme 59 Segundos. Resano has worked for LaSexa since 2006, presenting the afternoon La Sexta Noticias news bulletin as well as fronting other current affair programmes for the broadcaster.

Biography On 9 February 1974, Resano was born in Pamplona, Navarre. Her father was an electricity company worker. She graduated from the University of Navarra with a degree in Audiovisual Journalism in 1996, after beginning her course four years earlier because she thought it the best institute for her studies in the course.

Resano began her professional journalism career in her hometown of Pamplona in 1994, editing the Iñaki Gabilondo programme Hoy por hoy broadcast by the radio broadcaster Cadena SER. She subsequently presented a weekly variety programme on Pamplona Televisión and relocated to Madrid in 1995, joining Radio Nacional de España on a scholarship. Resano began variously presenting the morning, last, weekend and the 9:00 p.m news bulletins on TVE1. Resano began presenting the late night weekly current affairs documentary-debate programme La Actualidad en 2D from 2 April 2006. and the two-hour avant-garde journalistic magazine programme Sexto Sentido alongside Mamen Mendizábal and Cristina Villanueva for a single season starting in November 2006. She covered the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, In 2016, Resano's book, La trastienda de un informativo, was published.

Awards In 2000, she won the Premio Manos Unidas "for the best audiovisual work for the report La tierra de todos broadcast on Canal 24 Horas." She has been voted a double winner in the Antena de Oro television award category for her work on La Sexta Noticias by the Federation of Radio and Television Associations of Spain in both 2009 and 2017. Resano was twice nominated for the Best News Anchor accolade which is presented as part of the Iris Awards in each of 2017 and 2019.