Overview
- Soledad Gallego-Díaz died in Madrid at 75, El País reported Tuesday.
- Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia sent a telegram Wednesday praising her for defending the journalist’s voice against efforts to bend democracy to partisan aims.
- She became the first woman to lead El País in 2018 and served as director until 2020.
- At 26, she published the full draft of Spain’s 1978 Constitution in Cuadernos para el diálogo, a landmark scoop during the country’s shift to democracy after Franco.
- Her four-decade career spanned posts in Brussels, London, Paris, New York, and Buenos Aires, earned top prizes including the Ortega y Gasset, and continued after 2020 through a weekly column and radio work on Cadena SER.