María Teresa Ronderos
| María Teresa Ronderos Torres | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 Bogotá, Colombia |
| Residence | Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Education | Syracuse University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Semana |
María Teresa Ronderos Gerson Arias (born 1959) is a Colombian journalist best known for her work on the magazine, "Semana".
Ronderos, a native of Bogotá, studied political science at Florida International University and received a master's degree in political science from Syracuse University.
Ronderos began her career in Buenos Aires in 1983, where she covered Argentina's transition to democracy.
In 1992, she became the first female political editor of the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo. She worked on the TV news program Buenos Días Colombia and the TV opinion program Testimonio, and was a columnist for El Espectador, a Colombian national newspaper. From 1997 to 1999, she was editorial director, columnist, and editor at the business and financial magazine La Nota Económica.
From 2000 to 2005 she was general editor of Semana, a Colombian newsmagazine. From 1999 to 2000 she carried out a joint investigation with British and American reporters about the involvement of tobacco companies in cigarette smuggling. She was Semana’s managing editor from 2000-2005, and between 2008 and 2009 was editor of the magazine's website Semana.com.
Since 2008, Ronderos has been editorial director of VerdadAbierta.com, a website that she founded and that is focused on the armed conflict in Colombia. In 2013, Rounders and the VerdadAbierta organization won the Simon Bolivar National Award for best investigative reporting in Colombia. In 2015, she became the director for the Open Society Program on Independent Journalism. She also serves on the board of directors for the Garcia Marquez Iberoamerican Foundation and the Colombia School of Journalism Cabot Awards. Prior to taking the director position with Open Society Foundations, she served on the boards of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Flip, Colombia's Foundation for Freedom of the Press.
Americas Quarterly published her essay Develop a New Hemispheric Vision as part of a Fall 2008 issue consisting of advice for the next president of the U.S. “It will make a huge difference,” she wrote, “if the U.S. government becomes less tolerant of corrupt leaders and values more transparent and open information.”
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