Maria Martinez has been hired as a reporter on the Dow Jones Newswires EMEA desk in Barcelona, where she covers European economics.
Before starting with Dow Jones in Spain — the country where she was born — she spent three years in New York City. Martinez started her days at 4 a.m. as a producer of the TV and radio show “Bloomberg Surveillance” and finished her days at 4 p.m. as a TV reporter during the closing bell in the New York Stock Exchange.
She also spent a year working for desdewallstreet.tv as a business reporter.
Martinez studied journalism and English studies at the University of Valencia, before moving to the U.S. to pursue a master’s of international affairs at Columbia University as a Fulbright scholar.