María Teresa Herrán

María Teresa Herrán (born 1946) is a Colombian journalist and artist. A trained lawyer, political scientist and professor, she practiced journalism for 50 years and was a columnist for the newspapers El Espectador and El Tiempo. She has studied the role of the media in society extensively. She also directed the TV news program Promec and was editor-in-chief of the magazine Nueva Frontera.

Beginning when she was a law student, she wrote articles for the newspaper El Nuevo Siglo. She began writing for the women's section of the newspaper El Espectador, conducting interviews and reports, and crafted editorials from the age of 20. She remained a columnist for El Espectador until 2010, using the column to criticize the media. She also hosted a television program called Espacio Público.

Selected publications Herrán, María Teresa. "The school and the mass media." Education and the City, 4 (1997): 44-53. Herran, Maria Teresa. Palimpsests and journeys of communication in education. No. 3. National Pedagogical University, 1999. Restrepo, Javier Darío, María Teresa Herrán, Jesús Martín-Barbero, and Germán Rey. "War and the media." Journal of Social Studies 16 (2003): 117-119. Herrán, María Teresa. Ethics for Journalists. Editorial Norma, 2005. Jagua, Carlos Arturo Velandia, and María Teresa Herrán. Costs and effects of war in Colombia. Permanent Assembly of Civil Society for Peace, 2011.