Matías Guerrero

The woman I will talk about is Alejandra Matus. She is a Chilean journalist who has worked in Chilean media such as La Tercera, La Nación, La Época, among others. She has also published books such as Doña Lucía (2013), Mitos y verdades de las AFP (2017), Los Archivos del Cardenal. Casos reales (2011), El libro negro de la justicia chilena (1999), etc. This last book was censored by the government of the time, and she was also accused of violating the State Security Law. Because of this, she had to go into exile in the USA. Currently, she is academic at the Universidad Diego Portales and a panelist on the news tv show Pauta Libre on La Red. I like her because she is a journalist who criticizes the current context of the chilean media, and also a journalist who has lived firsthand the injustices of  the system, then she understands what it is to be violated by it.

Journalism is the job of informing people what they should know and what may be of interest to them. In this sense, journalists have an important duty in society, because they are in charge of going out to find the information and disseminate it in society, on topics such as politics, economy, culture, entertainment, etc. As a future journalist, ideally, I would like to be able to contribute to freedom and plurality of information, because today this doesn’t exist. But a more realistic idea would be to work in the field of culture. I would like to contribute from that area, because in Chile there is no importance for culture. I believe that journalism will be beneficial to the world when there is real plurality in the media, because if the media continue to be controlled by the hegemony, there will continue to be a political slant in the information.