The journalist Alicia Gómez Montano , editor of Equality of TVE, former director of the Weekly Report and vice president of Reporters Without Borders , has died this Saturday in Madrid, sources of public television have reported. He died at age 64 in Madrid at the University Hospital of Sanchinarro as a result of cancer

Gómez Montano (Madrid, 1955), whose career has been linked for four decades with RTVE , combined the position of editor of TVE's Equality with her work in the news program En Portada .

PhD in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and a university professor, the journalist was the finalist candidate with the best score in the public contest to be part of the RTVE Board of Directors and chair the public corporation.

He decided to present himself to the public competition for the renovation of the RTVE dome with the intention of contributing to the public television broadcasting leaving behind the stage of political protection of governments and parties .

She was the director and presenter of the weekly Report , since she combined with the direction of the Non-Daily Programs of the Information Services, but many of her attributions in RTVE over 40 years .

He joined the RNE staff, was part of the TVE delegation in Navarra , worked in the news - where he was head of information for Nacional - and dedicated himself to the field of reporting with Weekly Report , Thematic Night and, lately, in Cover .

Very committed to feminism and the free exercise of journalism, she denounced on several occasions that being a journalist is more difficult and risky when she is a woman and precisely on the impulse of equality on television she dedicated her efforts in recent times.

In 2018 she was appointed editor of Equality of TVE, a newly created position that Gómez Montano assumed with the aim of guaranteeing equality in the media. Since then, he developed an immense work in that position and promoted numerous actions in RTVE aimed at promoting equality .

Some of these initiatives have received important awards, such as the National Award from the Alares Foundation to the Todxs por Igual portal, or the Prize of the Ministry of the Presidency , Relations with the Courts and Equality for the interactive project '1,000 murdered women', of the Laboratory of Innovation of RTVE, in the category of Journalism against machismo.

In 2017 she was elected Vice President of Reporters Without Borders and in 2006 she wrote the book The Manipulation on Television .

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