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María Teresa Ronderos, Colombia, is the editor-in-chief of Semana, Colombia's leading newsmagazine.

María Teresa Ronderos, Colombia

Previously, she was a columnist and senior editor for La Nota, an independent Colombian magazine. She received the 1997 King of Spain Ibero-American Award for Journalism, the Spanish- and Portuguese-language equivalent of the U.S. Pulitzers, for stories about media coverage of her country’s political scandals involving drug money financing of the 1994 presidential campaign. For two years, she was political editor of El Tiempo, the country’s largest daily, and later became columnist for the Bogota daily El Espectador. In addition to writing, Ronderos directed the daily television news program, Buenos Dias Colombia, and the weekly television program, Testimonio, which received two awards for different investigative stories. She was a 1997 Knight journalism fellow at Stanford.