- Juanita León
Juanita León (born 1970) is a
Colombia n journalist, writer and lecturer. She was born in Colombia and graduated from law school before moving to New York to do a M.S. from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She worked as a reporter on the "Wall Street Journal de las Americas" before returning to Colombia in 1998.She worked for the newspaper "El Tiempo" and for "Semana" magazine. She was editor-in-chief of "semana.com" and collaborated with the TV series "Tiempos dificiles" and "Regreso a la Esperenza".
She was one of the first journalists to reveal the links between several Colombian politicians and paramilitary groups.
She was the editor of "Años de fuego" (2001, an anthology of the best Colombian reportage from the 1990s). In 2004 she published "No somos muchos pero somos machos" (reportages on civil resistance by Colombia’s indigenous people).
Her book "País de plomo. Crónicas de Guerra" ["Country of Bullets. War Diaries"] deals with Colombia’s armed conflict at the beginning of the 21st Century. In 2006 she was awarded the
Lettre Ulysses Award for the art of reportage (3rd prize) and was named a Nieman Fellow by "Harvard University".She taught at New York University's Graduate School of Journalism and worked as editor in chief of Flypmedia.com, an online news magazine based in New York City, until June 2008. She now teaches at the University of Los Andes in Bogota.
Awards
* World Health Organisation’s World Prize for Health Journalism (2001, for an article on the health risks posed by the conflict in Colombia)
* Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano - Cemex journalism prize (2002, finalist)
*Lettre Ulysses Award (2006, 3rd prize for the book "País de plomo. Crónicas de guerra")Bibliography
* "No somos muchos pero somos machos" (2004)
* "País de plomo. Crónicas de guerra" (2005, "Country of Bullets. War Diaries")External links
* [http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/leon.html New York University (Department of Journalism)]
* [http://www.lettre-ulysses-award.org/authors06/leon.html Lettre Ulysses Award]
* [http://www.flypmedia.com Flyp]
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