Mària Sánchez, director of the first RTVE environment program, dies at 59

The journalist Mària Sánchez, the first director of Escarabajo verde, the first television program in Spain dedicated to the environment, has died at the age of 59, a victim of cancer, as reported on Thursday by RTVE, the channel in which she developed most of his career

Mària Sánchez, director of the first RTVE environment program, dies at 59

The journalist Mària Sánchez, the first director of Escarabajo verde, the first television program in Spain dedicated to the environment, has died at the age of 59, a victim of cancer, as reported on Thursday by RTVE, the channel in which she developed most of his career.

Sànchez worked for 35 years as a journalist and for two decades was linked to Barcelona's social and municipal information, as recalled today by the mayor of the city, Ada Colau, who expressed her condolences via Telegram.

"A great professional and a sensitive, generous and close person who endeared himself from the first moment", pointed out the mayoress.

A well-known face of TVE news in Catalonia, Mària Sánchez is the author of the novel La República que vám viure, together with her husband Manel Lucas, set in 1931, the year in which the president of the Generalitat Francesc Macià declared the Catalan Republic.

The writing of the information services in Catalonia is dismayed by her "human and professional loss", as the colleagues of TVE have collected in a statement from the Information Council: "Marìa Sánchez Ledesma has been for many generations an example of a journalist dedicated to a profession that she was passionate about.She has always fought for the defense of information quality and public service.She has done her communication work based on absolute social responsibility and without losing, in any case, solidarity and empathy with both his fellow professionals as well as those citizens to whom he lent his voice to tell their stories".

His colleagues have highlighted his "capacity for attention, listening, analysis, contrast, in his conciliatory, dialogue and decisive character without stridency in moments of crisis. He has known how to command and execute, and has contributed fundamentally to the newsroom of news services in Catalonia and, by extension, on all TVE today in terms of quality and work capacity".

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