Soledad Gallego-Díaz (born 1951) is a Spanish journalist, and was the editor of Spanish newspaper '' El País'' from June 2018 to June 2020.

Biography

Born in

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in 1951, she lived for a year in

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and another year in Nashville when she was a toddler. She took studies at the Official School of Journalism of Madrid. She worked for Pyresa and '' Cuadernos para el Diálogo'' before joining ''El País'' shortly after the foundation of the newspaper in 1976. She has been correspondent in

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and New York. She won the Cirilo Rodríguez Journalism Award in 2010. Her appointment as the first-ever female editor of ''El País'' was announced in June 2018. She succeeded Antonio Caño, who had been the editor since 2014. Before becoming the editor of ''El País'' she also collaborated in '' Hoy por hoy'' and was a member of the editorial board of '' ctxt.es''.

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