Maria Teresa Ronderos

María Teresa Ronderos "is the director of Semana.com, the online edition of Colombia’s leading weekly newsmagazine. She is a role model and mentor for young journalists across Colombia as teacher, reporter, and press freedom advocate. For eight years, she was the president of the Foundation for Freedom of the Press, Colombia’s foremost press freedom advocacy organization, and now serves on the board. She was Semana’s managing editor from 2005-2007. Ronderos has worked as a columnist and editor at various Colombian publications including La Nota, El Tiempo, and El Espectador. She directed the television news programs “Buenos Dias Colombia” and “Testimonio.” Ronderos was a 1997 Knight Fellow at Stanford University and was awarded the Cabot prize in 2007 for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean."

• Director, Committee to Protect Journalists
• Directors Workshop, Fundacion Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano
• Member, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists