Chilean journalist (born 1947)
Pilar Vergara (born 23 June 1947) 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. 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.
Subsequently, she worked at Canal 13, on the program "Pasado meridiano", and at the newspaper "El Mercurio", where she participated in the Sunday Reports section. At that paper, she was also the editor of Section D reports. She was a professor of journalistic techniques at the journalism school of the Catholic University.
In 1981, Vergara joined the newspaper "La Segunda", along with Cristián Zegers. 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.
In 2012, she joined the board of Universidad Mayor.
Vergara currently writes a Sunday column for "El Mercurio".
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