Paula Escobar

Paula Escobar Chavarría (born 1968) is a Chilean editor, columnist, journalist, professor and writer.

She is an opinion columnist at La Tercera, host and panelist on CNN Chile, Founder and executive director of The Women and Media Chair at Universidad Diego Portales, and tenured professor at The Faculty of Communications of UDP.

Paula Escobar studied journalism at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and has a master’s degree in Comparative Literature.

In 2014, she banned the use of digital retouching in the newspaper’s supplements,[1] the use of underage and underweight models, and the publication of miracle diets.

She currently works in television, as a presenter for the TV program Influential and as a panelist for Tolerancia Cero, both on CNN Chile.