Mujeres corresponsales en el franquismo: los casos de Pilar Narvión y Conchita Guerrero

Abstract

The current research tackles two pioneering journalists during the Franco regime: Pilar Narvión and Concepción López Guerrero, known in the journalistic world with the alias Conchita Guerrero. They both were correspondents from the daily Pueblo, the first in Rome and Paris and the latter in Lisbon. They were in charge of international news during the fifties and sixties until they returned to Madrid, in 1973, when the newsroom was under Emilio Romero direction. Pilar Narvión became a reknowned parliamentary chronicler and became the first female deputy editor of a newspaper. Conchita Guerrero reached the head of the International Section. Both journalists shared a common passion for political journalism and both would remain in the newspaper until retirement, in Guerrero's case that would match the end of the Pueblo. The methodology will rely on a qualitative approach, a bibliographic review and the consultation of newspapers and archive sources that will provide means for portraying the pioneering experiences represented by these two journalists. This paper will explore their trajectories which are approached in order to understand the reality they lived as women from the press, in that particular time, and how they bypassed the margins established for feminine roles by the Franco regime.