Denise Maerker Salmón (born January 8, 1965, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican journalist who anchored the flagship En punto, the nightly newscast for Televisa from 2016 to 2023, and has served on the company's Board of Directors since April 2022.
[1] After returning to Mexico, Maerker was a research professor and director of communication at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE).
She entered into the world of journalism in 1997, appearing alongside Ciro Gómez Leyva on CNI Canal 40, who is now a competitor on Imagen Televisión.
After the departure of Joaquín López-Dóriga from the nightly news on Las Estrellas, Televisa announced on May 30, 2016, that Maerker would be his replacement beginning on August 22.
[2] Maerker was subsequently appointed to the Board of Directors of Grupo Televisa on April 5, 2022.