Tania Tinoco (August 2, 1963 – May 21, 2022)[1] was an Ecuadorian journalist, author, television producer, director, TV and radio presenter, reporter, interviewer, and opinion leader.

At the age of 11, together with her father Colón Tinoco, she went to live in Guayaquil, where she studied at the Unidad Educativa Bilingüe [es] de La Inmaculada.

Her first report for the school magazine was about an interview with the singer José Luis "El Puma" Rodríguez, granted after much insistence to his manager.

In December 1983, at age 20, with the help of the director of her college who recommended her to the Human Resources manager of Ecuavisa, she was brought on by the channel to work in the filing.

In 1986, Nila Velásquez, then director of the Sunday newscast and current opinion editor of the newspaper El Universo, recommended to Alberto Borges [es] that he choose Tania to read the news.