Ana Pastor
Encyclopedia
Ana Pastor García is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
) is a Spanish
Spain
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journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and anchorwoman.
Career
Has a degree in journalism from Universidad CEU San PabloCEU San Pablo University
CEU San Pablo University, , is a private, Catholic university located in Madrid and campus in Madrid and Alcorcón.It is run by the CEU Foundation.-History:...
, and developed her journalistic career by working for print press, television, RNE and EFE
EFE
EFE is a Spanish news agency created in 1939 by Spain's former minister of the press and propaganda Ramón Serrano Súñer and Manuel Aznar Zubigaray....
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In Cadena SER
In 1999, Ana Pastor started to work for the radio station Cadena SERCadena SER
La Cadena SER is Spain's premier radio network in terms of both seniority and audience share...
with Iñaki Gabilondo
Iñaki Gabilondo
José Ignacio Gabilondo Pujol is a Spanish journalist, and TV news anchor. Gabilondo started his career at 21 in Radio Popular until 1969, when he became the director of Radio San Sebastián...
, covering international affairs. She was international correspondent in Southern Asia and reported about the tsunami tragedy, the London Bombings
7 July 2005 London bombings
The 7 July 2005 London bombings were a series of co-ordinated suicide attacks in the United Kingdom, targeting civilians using London's public transport system during the morning rush hour....
in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and many other countries in conflict.
Pastor also directed and hosted the weekly TV-Program Punto de fuga where she interviewed several politicians like Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the 24th and current President of Liberia. She served as Minister of Finance under President William Tolbert from 1979 until the 1980 coup d'état, after which she left Liberia and held senior positions at various financial institutions. She placed a very distant second in...
(president of Liberia) or the former president of Ireland and Premio Principe de Asturias's winner Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish Senate...
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In TVE
Since 2006, she has worked for TVE where she began by hosting the discussion programme 59 Segundos. She considers herself a moderate person by allowing interviewees have their say.Since 2009 she has been Pepa Bueno's substitute in Los desayunos de TVE. Other TV-Programmes she works in are Informe semanal along with other journalists and the RNE's Asuntos propios hosted by Toni Garrido.
In March 15, 2011, she interviewed the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which caused some controversy given that her hair slipped out of her veil
Veil
A veil is an article of clothing, worn almost exclusively by women, that is intended to cover some part of the head or face.One view is that as a religious item, it is intended to show honor to an object or space...
onto her shoulders without her realising. This issue became a Trending topic
Trending topic
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on Twitter
Twitter
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