[2][3] She is a full professor at the University of Chile and has been the director of its Institute of Communication and Image [es] (ICEI) since 2010.

Her work has focused on investigative journalism, and she has written several books which caused great impact at the time of their publication.

She then joined the political magazine Análisis [es], opposed to the military dictatorship, where she was editor-in-chief and deputy director until 1987.

[6] During the 1980s she was the founder of the Women for Life Movement, and in 1984 she received the Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism, granted by the Nieman Foundation of Harvard University.

She is also a founding member of the Council of the Book and Reading Observatory, formed in July 2012 by the University of Chile and the Chilean Book Chamber [es], and joined the Advisory Board of the Pluralism Studies Fund of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT), from 2009 to 2011.