Soledad Gallego-Díaz, who died this Tuesday in Madrid at the age of 75, achieved the major journalistic scoop of Spain’s democratic transition at just 26 years old: the publication in the magazine Cuadernos para el Diálogo of the draft of the Spanish Constitution of 1978, which, for reasons that now seem incomprehensible, was kept under strict secrecy. From then on, Sol, as she was known, was a force to be reckoned with in Spanish journalism: the first female editor-in-chief of EL PAÍS from June 8, 2018, to June 15, 2020; deputy editor under three different editors (Juan Luis Cebrián, Joaquín Estefanía, and Jesús Ceberio); correspondent in Brussels, London, Paris, New York, and Buenos Aires; special envoy to numerous international events, such as the end of the dissolution of the Soviet Union; political reporter; bureau chief in Seville; readers’ advocate; editorial writer; and professor at the newspaper.

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