The journalist Mària Sánchez, first director of the Green Beetle, the first television program in Spain dedicated to the environment, has died at the age of 59 victim of cancer, as reported Thursday RTVE, chain in which she developed most of her career.
Sànchez worked 35 years as a journalist and for two decades was linked to the social and municipal information of Barcelona, as recalled today by the mayor of the city, Ada Colau, who has expressed her condolences through Telegram.
"A great professional and a sensitive, generous and close person who was loved from the first moment," said the mayor.
A well-known face of TVE news in Catalonia, Mària Sánchez is the author of the novel La República que vam 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 newsroom of the news services in Catalonia is dismayed by her "human and professional loss", as the colleagues of TVE have collected in a statement from the News Council: "Marìa Sánchez Ledesma has been for many generations, an example of a journalist dedicated to a profession that she was passionate about. It has always fought for the defense of the quality of information and public service. He has done his communicative work from an absolute social responsibility and without losing, in any case, solidarity and empathy both with his colleagues and with 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, dialoguing and decisive character without stridency in moments of crisis. He has been able to command and execute, and has contributed in a fundamental way to the writing of the information services in Catalonia and, by extension, in all TVE is today in terms of quality and capacity for work".
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