Paula Escobar
Paula Escobar Chavarría (n. 1968) is a Chilean editor, columnist, journalist, professor and writer. She is a recipient of the Lenka Franulic Award. Career. Paula Escobar studied social information at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and she has a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature. She was a journalist for the Pluma y Pincel magazine between 1987 and 1988. Between 1988 and 2001, she worked at the "Caras" magazine as a journalist, director and editor. At the same time, between 1999 and 2001, she was the managing editor of Televisa Chile. Between 2001 and 2020, she was  the editor for all the magazines under El Mercurio Newspaper. In 2004, she banned the use of digital retouching in the newspaper’s supplements, the use of underage and underweight models, and the publication of miracle diets. She has been a columnist for The Huffington Post (2011-2016), and La Tercera. She works in television, as a presenter for the TV program Influential and as a panelist for Tolerancia Cero, both on CNN Chile. She has taught at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and at Universidad Diego Portales. In the latter, she is executive director of the Women and Media  chair and an academic at the School of Journalism. She was president of the Magazines Commission of the National Press Association of Chile and vice president of the National Association of Women Journalists of Chile. She has also been vice president of Comunidad Mujer, member of the Gender Parity Initiative of the World Economic Forum and member of the board of the Young Global Leaders Foundation of the WEF, based in Geneva. Awards and recognition. She has received several awards, including: