Goodbye to Concha García Campoy, journalistic elegance on radio and television

The journalist Concha García Campoy, 54, died this Wednesday at the La Fe Hospital in Valencia, where she was admitted in critical condition due to the leukemia she had suffered since 2011.

Concha García Campoy died this Wednesday at the La Fe Hospital in Valencia after suffering a hepatic coma in her tireless fight against cancer.

The journalist, member and spokesperson of the board of directors of the Academy of Television Sciences and Arts since September 2006, was diagnosed with leukemia in September 2011, and was then forced to leave the morning show she directed on Cuatro. After a period of recovery, he returned to the small screen, this time to Telecinco, but for a short time, since in January 2013 a relapse took him away from television again.

The president of the Academy, Manuel Campo Vidal, has highlighted his professional and personal talent: "There has not been an example of greater integrity and enthusiasm. We will make his example live on."

Last February, the journalist received the Joaquín Soler Serrano Award in recognition of her professional career. "Radio has been very important in my life, fundamental, radio has taught me how to live, not just how to work, because radio is very true. And television has given me many opportunities. Because television is spectacle, it is fascinating, but television is also and should be true," Concha then declared gratefully.

Graduated in Journalism at the Faculty of Information Sciences of Barcelona and did her first job at Radio Popular de Ibiza where she directed the program Public Antenna (1979).

After passing the exams for the Public Entity of Spanish Radio Television (RTVE), in 1984 he joined the TVE Information Services in the Balearic Islands and in 1985 he moved to Madrid.

She was precisely accompanied by Manuel Campo Vidal when Concha Campoy rose to fame in 1985 as presenter of the Noon Newscast on TVE. Since then, radio (RNE, SER and Onda Cero) and television have been the media in which this professional has elevated journalism to an elegance that is so missing now.

Mother of two children, Lorenzo (1992) and Berta (1998), the result of her marriage to the sociologist and journalist Lorenzo Díaz, she was currently romantically linked to the film and theater producer Andrés Vicente Gómez.