Olga Rodríguez

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

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 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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