Pilar Vergara

Pilar Vergara
Vergara at the anniversary of La Segunda in 2011
Born
María del Pilar Vergara Tagle

(1947-06-23) 23 June 1947 (age 77)
NationalityChilean
Alma materPontifical Catholic University of Chile
OccupationJournalist
Parents
  • Ruperto Vergara Santa Cruz (father)
  • Olga Tagle (mother)
AwardsNational Prize for Journalism (1993)

Pilar Vergara (born 23 June 1947[1]) is a Chilean journalist, winner of the National Prize for Journalism in 1993.

Career

Pilar Vergara is the daughter of Ruperto Vergara Santa Cruz, a publicist and farmer from La Calera, and Olga Tagle.[1] She is the granddaughter of distinguished jurist and diplomat Ruperto Vergara Bulnes. She studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC), graduating in 1968.[2][3]

Subsequently, she worked at Canal 13, on the program Pasado meridiano,[3] and at the newspaper El Mercurio, where she participated in the Sunday Reports section.[4] At that paper, she was also the editor of Section D reports.[2] She was a professor of journalistic techniques at the journalism school of the Catholic University.[5]

In 1981, Vergara joined the newspaper La Segunda, along with Cristián Zegers [es].[4] Initially, she worked as editor-in-chief, later assuming the position of editor of information services. In 2006, after the appointment of Zegers at El Mercurio, she assumed the position of director of the newspaper, a job she held until 2011.[3]

In 2012, she joined the board of Universidad Mayor.[6]

Vergara currently writes a Sunday column for El Mercurio.

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b Hott Dagorret, Jacqueline; Larraín, Consuelo (eds.). Veintidós caracteres: Premios Nacionales de Periodismo [22 Characters: National Journalism Awards] (PDF) (in Spanish). Ediciones Finis Terrae. p. 241. Retrieved 29 October 2017 – via Memoria Chilena.
  2. ^ a b c "Pilar Vergara Tagle" (in Spanish). Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "Pilar Vergara deja la dirección de La Segunda" [Pilar Vergara Leaves the Directorshp of La Segunda]. El Dínamo (in Spanish). 29 September 2011. Archived from the original on 1 January 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  4. ^ a b Aravena Bolívar, Pamela (9 December 2011). "Los top secret de Pilar Vergara". Caras (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 January 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Pilar Vergara". Memoria Chilena (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Pilar Vergara asume como miembro del Directorio de la Universidad Mayor" [Pilar Vergara Assumes Membership of the Board of Directors of Universidad Mayor]. Diario Mayor (in Spanish). 9 November 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
Preceded by Director of La Segunda
2006–2011 		Succeeded by
Víctor Carvajal Navarrete