Rosa Maria Calaf Solé ( : born 17 June 1945) is a Spanish journalist, reporter, news anchor and former correspondent of

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. She was a TVE correspondent from 1972 until her retirement in 2008. She was also a director of programming at

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in 1983. She has received numerous prizes for her work.

Early life and career

Her maternal grandfather hails from

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(

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), was a businessman. She graduated in law from the

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and in journalism from the

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. In 2008 she was invested Doctor Honoris Causa by the

Rovira i Virgili University University of Rovira i Virgili (; ) is located in the Catalan cities of Tarragona, Reus, Tortosa Vila-seca, el Vendrell and Vilafranca del Penedès (Spain). Its name is in honor of Antoni Rovira i Virgili. The Universitat Rovira i Virgili i ...

and in 2010 from the

Miguel Hernández University of Elche The Miguel Hernández University (''UMH'', , , ), is a Spanish Public University offering education, research and services facilitating the comprehensive development of its students. It is located in the province of Alicante (province), A ...

. The silver streak on her forehead that would be defined as her characteristic feature, was the brainchild of stylist Luis Llongueras. Rosa Maria Calaf has been until her retirement in 2008 the oldest correspondent of TVE, with 37 years of journalism behind. She was a TVE correspondent in

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(1984-1987),

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(1987-1989;1996-1999),

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(1989-1993),

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(1993-1995),

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(1996),

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(1998-2007) and

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(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

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voluntarily availed of TVE. In 2009, she finally retired from the reporting industry.

References

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