Maria Escario says goodbye to TVE. The journalist, one of the most emblematic presenters of the public channel, He retires after 40 years working for the Corporationa time in which he has been on almost all editions of the Telediarios and has broadcast all kinds of sporting events, including several Olympic Games.
In recent years, Escario has been Ombudsman of the Audiencea position she will resign from on September 2 to face her final months within the network, because she will be leaving it in December, when she will turn 65. “The interim president of RTVE, Concepción Cascajosa, on behalf of the entire Board of Directors, has thanked Escario for his professional work throughout this time,” the Corporation explains in a statement. Starting next season, Rosa María Molló will be the new Ombudsman of the Audience.
María Escario is a long-time member of the public channel, one of those faces that have always helped the public identify the RTVE brand, something like what happened with Ana Blanco, who also retired a few months ago. With the departure of Blanco and now that of Escario, The public channel loses two heavyweights from its staffIn the case of Escario, she worked for years as a presenter of the Telediarios, first in charge of general information and then focusing on the sports block. She has also been Communications Director of RTVE between 2018 and 2021.
Rosa María Molló, new Ombudsman as of September
Rosa María Molló (Lleida, 1963) will return to RTVE as Hearing Defender Molló has been a member of the Catalan Audiovisual Council for two and a half years, and is currently the Vice-President of the Catalan Audiovisual Council. With a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Molló began her career at RNE, although her career of almost three decades at RTVE has been mainly in television. She has hosted news programmes and has been a correspondent in the United States (2003-2008), Asia-Pacific (2009-2010) and the Middle East (2010-2012). As a reporter, she has also covered various armed conflicts, such as the war in Afghanistan (2001) and the revolutions in Egypt, Libya and Syria (2010-2012).
In January 2019 she returned to RTVE as coordinator of Cultural Transformation and Strategic HR Projects. In September of the same year she joined Weekly report as a presenter. In June 2020 she was appointed Director of Corporate Communications and Image at RTVE.
In February 2022 it was elected member of the Catalan Audiovisual Council (CAC)the highest regulatory authority in the audiovisual media sector, of which she has been vice president from March 2022 to the present. As a member of the CAC, she has been part of the team responsible for supervising compliance with regulations on audiovisual media and advertising by providers, both in the public and private sectors in Catalonia. In addition to assigning frequencies to broadcasters, protecting consumers, resolving conflicts and safeguarding the protection of rights, information, pluralism, neutrality, as well as free competition in the market. She has also been responsible for the research and innovation area of the regulatory body.
She has combined journalism with team management and organizational change, a task to which she fully dedicated herself between 2013-2019, during which time she worked for an international management agency. She is co-author of the book ‘Leaders of Change that Matter: How to adopt and adapt new realities’. Certified in Intercultural Studies and Communication by UBC, Vancouver, Canada, and in Emotional and Social Intelligence by ISEI in Denver, Colorado, she also has accredited studies for people performance and leadership.
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