Rosa María Calaf

Rosa Maria Calaf Solé ( : born 17 June 1945) is a Spanish journalist, reporter, news anchor and former correspondent of Televisión Española. She was a TVE correspondent from 1972 until her retirement in 2008. She was also a director of programming at TV3 in 1983. She has received numerous prizes for her work.

Early life and career Her maternal grandfather hails from Rocafort de Queralt (Tarragona), was a businessman. She graduated in law from the University of Barcelona and in journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Moscow (1987-1989;1996-1999), Buenos Aires (1989-1993), Rome (1993-1995), Vienna (1996), Hong Kong (1998-2007) and Beijing (2007-2008). Her last job was as a correspondent for BBC1 in the Asia Pacific region. She was also director of programming for TV3 in 1983.

In over three decades of professional experience she has been in over a hundred countries, microphone in hand in search of news. Due to the redundancy of RTVE for 50 years awaiting her impending retirement, but eventually covered the Asia-Pacific area, preparing coverage of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. In November 2008 layoff voluntarily availed of TVE. In 2009, she finally retired from the reporting industry.