Cristina Saavedra

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Saavedra and the second or maternal family name is Pita.
Cristina Saavedra
Born
Cristina Saavedra Pita

(1975-11-13) 13 November 1975 (age 49)[1]
A Coruña, Spain
Occupation(s)Journalist and television presenter

Cristina Saavedra Pita (A Coruña, Spain, November 13, 1975) is a Spanish journalist.

Biography

With a degree in journalism from the University of Santiago de Compostela, she began her professional career as a reporter at Televisión de Galicia, where she later worked as a news anchor for four years.

Later, she would make the leap to national television, becoming a popular face thanks to the program Ahora, a space that began daily (Monday to Friday) and that was initially co-presented along with the Galician journalist Liborio Garca. Finally, he took over the program alone, and the frequency of the program became weekly, on Saturdays. Ahora was broadcast on Antena 3 for almost six years, from 2000[2] until the summer of 2006,[3] airing more than five hundred programs.[4]

Shortly after the end of Ahora, Saavedra joined La Sexta, where she returned to the news genre.[5] From September 2006 until the end of 2012, she was the substitute presenter of the Sunday evening news program La Sexta Noticias. She currently presents La Sexta Noticias 2ª Edición (20h).[6]

Also important is the fact that she is in charge of the NGO Global Humanitaria's project in Ivory Coast.[7]

In 2016, she was awarded the Antena de Oro Award, given annually by the Federation of Associations of Radio and Television of Spain, for her work as presenter of Noticias 20 Horas, on La Sexta.[8][9]

The presenter participates in 2017, on a recurring basis, in the series La casa de papel, by Antena 3, in her role as presenter of La Sexta Noticias, becoming part of 8 episodes.[10][11]

Filmography

Television series

Year Series Channel Character Duration
2002 Un paso adelante Antena 3 Herself 1 episode
2017 – 2020 La casa de papel Antena 3 / Netflix TV Presenter 11 episodes

References

  1. ^ "Cristina Saavedra". FórmulaTV (in Spanish).
  2. ^ "El magacín de tarde «Ahora» cumple hoy 200 programas". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 19 April 2001.
  3. ^ "Antena 3 prescindirá del programa "Ahora" después de 6 años". ElDiario (in Spanish). 16 June 2006.
  4. ^ "«Ni era ni soy consumidora de programas del corazón»". El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). 27 May 2006.
  5. ^ "Cristina Saavedra se incorpora al equipo de 'La Sexta Noticias'". FórmulaTV (in Spanish). 1 September 2006.
  6. ^ "Cristina Saavedra prepara su regreso a televisión tras perder a sus dos hermanas". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 10 May 2022.
  7. ^ "La dura despedida de Cristina Saavedra de su hermana, que ha fallecido 12 días después de la muerte de su abuela". El Periódico (in Spanish). 30 June 2021.
  8. ^ "Cristina Saavedra recoge su premio 'Antena de Oro': "Tengo al mejor equipo detrás"". LaSexta (in Spanish). 8 February 2018.
  9. ^ "Cristina Saavedra, Roberto Brasero y Esther Eirós, premiados con Antenas de Oro". Antena 3 (in Spanish). 7 October 2016.
  10. ^ "Descubre las dos famosas periodistas que se colarán en 'La casa de papel'". Antena 3 (in Spanish). 27 October 2017.
  11. ^ "Cristina Pardo y Cristina Saavedra hacen horas extra en La casa de papel". El Diario (in Spanish). 3 November 2017.