Paula Escobar
{{Short description|Chilean editor and columnist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Paula Escobar Chavarría
| image = Paula Escobar (cropped).jpg
| caption = Escobar in 2014
| birth_place = Chile
| birth_date = {{bya|1968}}
| education = Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
| occupation = {{hlist|magazine editor|columnist|journalist|professor|writer}}
| awards = Lenka Franulic Award (2014)
100 Women, BBC (2015)
}}
Paula Escobar Chavarría (born 1968) is a Chilean editor, columnist, journalist, professor and writer. She is a recipient of the Lenka Franulic Award. She is an opinion columnist at La Tercera, host and panelist on CNN Chile, Founder and executive director of The Women and Media Chair at Universidad Diego Portales, and tenured professor at The Faculty of Communications of UDP.
Early life
Paula Escobar studied journalism at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and has a master’s degree in Comparative Literature.{{citation needed|date= March 2023}}
Career
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.{{citation needed|date= March 2023}}
Between 2001 and 2020, she was the editor for all the magazines under El Mercurio Newspaper. In 2014, she banned the use of digital retouching in the newspaper’s supplements,{{cite web |url = http://www.cromos.com.co/moda/paula-escobar-la-chilena-que-prohibio-en-su-revista-el-uso-de-photoshop-9338|archive-url = https://archive.today/20150727204912/http://www.cromos.com.co/moda/paula-escobar-la-chilena-que-prohibio-en-su-revista-el-uso-de-photoshop-9338|url-status = dead|archive-date = 27 July 2015|title = Paula Escobar, la chilena que prohibió en su revista el uso de Photoshop|author = cromos|date = 10 May 2014|access-date= 30 July 2015}} the use of underage and underweight models, and the publication of miracle diets.{{cite web |url = http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2014/04/140407_revista_abandona_photoshop_chile_ch|title = La revista chilena que decidió dejar de usar Photoshop para retocar a las modelos|author = BBC|date = 21 April 2014|access-date = 28 July 2015}}{{cite web |url =http://voces.huffingtonpost.com/paula-escobar-chavarria/un-ano-sin-photoshop_b_6506862.html |title =Un año sin Photoshop |author = Voces |location = United States|date =21 January 2015|access-date= 28 July 2015}}
She has been a columnist for The Huffington Post (2011-2016),{{cite web |url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paula-escobar-chavarria|author = The Huffington Post|title = Paula Escobar Chavarría|location = United States|access-date= 28 July 2015}} and La Tercera. She currently 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.{{cite web |url = http://www.mujeresperiodistaschile.com/#!directorio/ymy9d |title =Directiva|author =Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Periodistas de Chile|location = Chile |date=2015 |access-date= 19 August 2015}} 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.{{citation needed|date= March 2023}}
Other activities
- The New Humanitarian, Member of the Board of Directors (2021–present)[https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/content/new-humanitarian-welcomes-paula-escobar-chavarria-and-syed-nazakat-board-directors The New Humanitarian welcomes Paula Escobar-Chavarría and Syed Nazakat to board of directors] The New Humanitarian, press release of 7 December 2021.
Publications
- Los secretos de Totó (2002) ({{ISBN|9562392317}})
- 24/24 Un día en la vida de 24 mujeres chilenas (2005), junto con Karim Gálvez y Pilar Segovia. (ISBN 978-956-239-409-3)
- Retratos de innovadores (2009) ({{ISBN|9789562396981}})
- Una historia de las revistas chilenas (2012) (with Cecilia García Huidobro)
- Yo, presidente/a (2014) ({{ISBN|978-956-324-302-4}}){{cite web|url =http://comunicacionyletras.udp.cl/libro-de-paula-escobar-muestra-el-liderazgo-de-cinco-ex-presidentes/|title =Libro de Paula Escobar muestra el liderazgo de cinco expresidentes|author =comunicacionyletras|location=Chile|date=16 May 2014|access-date=28 July 2015}}
- Conversaciones con María Teresa Ruiz (2018)
- El año de la Plaga (2020), (with Francisco Javier Olea)
- Un Mundo Incierto: Treinta Conversaciones (2021)
- Un Mundo Alerta (2022)
Awards and recognition
She has received several awards, including:
- Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2006){{citation needed|date= March 2023}}
- Yale World Fellow, Yale (2012){{citation needed|date= March 2023}}
- Premio Lenka Franulic (2014){{cite web|url = http://mujeresperiodistas.cl/?p=3649|title = Paula Escobar, Premio Lenka Franulic 2014|author = mujeresperiodistas|location= Chile|date= 25 August 2014|access-date= 28 July 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100951/http://mujeresperiodistas.cl/?p=3649|archive-date= 4 March 2016}}
- 100 Women, BBC (2015){{cite news |last1=Conlan |first1=Tara |last2=Martinson |first2=Jane |title=MediaGuardian 100: women on the rise, but much still to do on diversity |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/30/mediaguardian-100-women-ethnic-diversity |access-date=2 March 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=30 November 2015}}
- Energía de Mujer award (2015){{citation needed|date= March 2023}}
- Periodismo de Excelencia award UAH, Written press category (2018){{citation needed|date= March 2023}}
- Poynter Fellow in Journalism, Yale (2020){{citation needed|date= March 2023}}
- Premio al Liderazgo, International Women's Forum, Chilean chapter (2020){{citation needed|date= March 2023}}
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