Ernesto Montenegro

Ernesto Montenegro (1885 – 17 June 1967) was a Chilean journalist and writer associated with the Generation of 1912.

Career Ernesto Montenegro spent much of his life in the United States, where he served as a journalist and founded a magazine named Chile.

In Chile he founded the first school of journalism (of the University of Chile) in 1952, which he also directed and worked for as a professor.

In his country he worked for the newspaper El Mercurio, and was a chronicler for several international papers, such as El Universal (Venezuela), Excélsior (Mexico), and the New York Times, Herald Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor (United States). In addition, he translated stories by American authors. Atenea Award (1933)