7. An expert in Journalism: María Olivia Mönckeberg

 María Olivia Mönckeberg is a titular professor at Universidad de Chile and director at Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen (ICEI). She has developed in the Investigative Journalism area. Monckeberg has worked for very important magazines as Ercilla, Hoy and Análisis.

 Análisis was a magazine characterized in opposition to the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Mönckeberg worked as general editor and subdirector in that context, risking her life because in that time being against the government meant to be prosecuted, tortured, exiled or killed.

 Her work in investigation has been stunning: she has written eight books of investigation focused in institutions related to economy, catholic religion and education. Every book has been published in a certain context -as economic collusion or catholic church scandals- setting the debate in the public agenda and encouraging the investigation in those cases.

 I like the work that Mönckeberg has done because is a clean, professional and passionate work. She raises as an magnificent example for the future journalist of this country, by encouraging the good research and the professional job.