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 The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (''PUC or UC Chile'') ( es, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical universities i ...

(UC), graduating in 1968. Subsequently, she worked at Canal 13, on the program ''Pasado meridiano'', and at the newspaper ''

El Mercurio ''El Mercurio'' (known online as ''El Mercurio On-Line'', ''EMOL'') is a Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago. Its Santiago edition is considered the country's newspaper of record and it is considered the oldest daily in t ...

'', 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 . Initially, she worked as

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, 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

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. Vergara currently writes a Sunday column for ''El Mercurio''.

Awards

* 1988 –

Lenka Franulic Award The Lenka Franulic Award ( es, Premio Lenka Franulic, links=no) is a Chilean prize, whose purpose is to recognize career achievement in women's journalism. It has been given annually since 1963 by the . It is named for Lenka Franulic, the first ...

* 1991 – Embotelladora Andina Award * 1993 – National Prize for Journalism * 2001 – Distinguished Alumna Award from the UC Alumni Association * 2003 – Carmen Puelma Award

References

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