Spanish television presenter Ana Rosa Quintana has cut short her summer vacation to travel to Ceuta and cover the migration crisis unfolding there, Mediaset announced.
Quintana, 70, had been staying at her second residence in Sotogrande, on the Cadiz coast, when she decided to travel to the autonomous city on Sunday, August 2, to report live on what she described as a serious situation triggered by a large influx of migrants in recent days.
She will begin her coverage with a live appearance on Fiesta, presented by Frank Blanco, followed by the midday and evening editions of Informativos Telecinco Fin de Semana, anchored by Carmen Corazzini. Her presence in Ceuta is expected to continue through at least Monday, August 3, when she will connect live with La Mirada Critica, Vamos a Ver, and the 3 p.m. edition of Informativos Telecinco.
Quintana is not the only Mediaset journalist to cancel vacation plans because of the crisis. Iker Jimenez and Carmen Porter had already done so to produce a special edition of Horizonte on Cuatro.
Precedent from the Dana disaster
The deployment echoes Quintana's coverage of the Dana storm disaster, when she presented a special edition of TardeAR from Paiporta and was subsequently deployed as a field reporter across all of Mediaset's news programs over the All Saints holiday weekend. During that coverage she traveled to the worst-affected towns, including Paiporta, Chiva, Torrent, Utiel, and Massanassa, reporting live on rescue operations, debris clearance, and the arrival of authorities. In one live broadcast, police ordered her to stop transmitting while she was describing conditions at the center of the disaster zone.
