María Lourdes Maldonado Alconada (born 3 May 1973) is a Spanish television journalist and newscaster. She worked for the Spanish national television broadcaster Antena 3 from 2000 to 2017, firstly as a journalist for Antena 3 Noticias and later as Head of Culture and Society. Maldonado was a newscaster for the local Madrid broadcaster Telemadrid's Telenoticias 1 [es] afternoon news bulletin from September 2017 to September 2021. She has also worked for the news agency Agence France-Presse and she has either won or been nominated for various journalistic awards.