María Jimena Duzán Gomez

María Jimena Duzán Sáenz (born 1959) is a Colombian journalist and political scientist. She has worked for some of the most important media outlets in the country, including El Espectador, El Tiempo, and the magazine Semana, where she was employed from 2008 to 2020. From 2020 to 2021, she was a host on Caracol Radio's La W. She has also written for international publications. She is known for her criticism of the Álvaro Uribe government (2002–2010).

Biography María Jimena Duzán was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1959. She began writing at age 16, when she wrote a tribute to her deceased father, newspaper columnist Lucio Duzán, and submitted it to the then-director of El Espectador, Guillermo Cano. Cano published the piece and gave her a column in the paper titled "Mi hora cero" ("My Zero Hour"), making her one of the country's youngest columnists. Duzán went on to study political science at the University of the Andes and in Paris, where she also worked as a foreign correspondent.

She kept working for El Espectador, reporting for its investigations team and continuing to write her opinion column. In 1989, El Espectador was the target of a terrorist attack by one of the drug gangs. She wrote for various international publications including the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and Marie Claire.

From 1992 to 1993, Duzán wrote for the magazine Semana, then later as a columnist for the newspaper El Tiempo, before returning to Semana in 2008. In her later stint at Semana, which lasted until 2020, she contributed as both a reporter and a columnist, and hosted the weekly program Semana en Vivo. In this period she was notably critical of Álvaro Uribe's presidency, publishing the critical book Así gobierna Uribe in 2004. After the magazine was acquired by the Gillinsky Group and its editorial direction changed significantly, Duzán quit alongside many of her colleagues. From 2020 to 2021, she worked for the morning news program on Caracol Radio's La W. Then, in 2021, she began pursuing independent projects, including a podcast A Fondo on Spotify. In 2022, she became a columnist for the magazine Cambio.

In 2005, Duzán received a for journalist of the year.