Karen Maron
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Karen Marón is an Argentine journalist and producer. As international correspondent specialized in armed conflicts and international politics she has covered conflicts in the Middle East, Latin America, Persian Gulf including the most dangerous places of the world as Iraq
, Lebanon
, Colombia
, Libya
and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
from the Second Intifada up to Israel's military offensive on Gaza Strip
in 2009 and the anniversary in 2010.
Since February 2011 covers the rebellion in Libya and Egypt.
She is a member of honor of the World Peace Summit and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma) - based at the University of Washington - that recognizes and promotes excellence in reporting violence and trains journalists on issues related to trauma in collaboration with International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
-Telemundo
(United States), BBC World
(United Kingdom), Radio France International, El Universal
(Mexico), El Tiempo, El Espectador
, Caracol Radio
(Colombia), Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), El Mercurio
(Chile), Perfil
weekly magazine, and Télam
of Argentina. Besides, she has contributed to Radio Cooperativa
(Chile), Espectador Radio (Uruguay) and Azteca Television (Mexico).
She is recognized widely by her professional labor in Iraq during the military American occupation. From this risky coverage, speaker has spread during the last four years all the news events of the country for the Hispanic
world. Her works spread from the coverage of the fourth anniversary of the invasion in 2007, Saddam Hussein
's trial and his execution, the first elections to make up the Constitutional Assembly
, the Constitutional Referendum and the Parliamentary elections during the military occupation
in 2005.
Later during 2004 to 2011, she gave coverage to the successive changes in power, the first elections to make up the Constitutional Assembly
, the Constitutional Referendum and the Parliamentary elections during the military occupation
.She met with different Iraqi groups, including Mahdi Army
, led by cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr
and in secrecy, with Ba'ath Party members. Her work stands out for her written and broadcast reports on the humanitarian, economic, social and general situation of the country during the occupation period, with special emphasis on the war victims.
From April to August 2004, and during the whole of 2005 she has been the only Latin American journalist in Iraq
working simultaneously for up to 12 different communications media. Her coverage of the tortures in the Abu Ghraib
jails, in May 2004, were published exclusively and for the first time in Latin America by Colombia's El Espectador. She worked in the cities of Baghdad
, Najaf
, Kerbala, Kufa
, Falluja, Kirkuk
and Suleimania in Kurdistan.
Before that, she was witness to conflicts and the post-conflict periods in the Middle East, Colombia, Peru and Cyprus for several international media.
In the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East during 2000 and 2001, she dealt with topics such as the peace process, the Second Intifada and the visit to Bethlehem
of Yasser Arafat
during Christmas on Jubilee year, interviewing the top Israel
i and Palestinian
dignitaries. She also covered the confrontations in Ramallah
and Beit Jala
.
In Colombia, her interview with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(FARC), when they declared themselves to be a "State in the making", was considered by specialists as the "interview of the year for 2001" and her work done with women guerrillas won international recognition for its humanitarian content.
There, she also covered the drama of those internally displaced and, in the Putumayo region, worked on the topic of fumigations with glifosate that affects thousands of rural and indigenous people. Amongst her outstanding special investigations is the one on the links between the FARC and International Terrorism.
In 2003, she worked in Peru on Sendero Luminoso's/ Shining Path's possible resurgence, interviewing members of that organization. She did special research regarding the Truth Commission and the consequences of political violence.
In March of the same year she gave coverage to the Peace Keeping Operation in Cyprus (UNFICYP) in the light of the possible peace agreement between Greece and Turkey, sponsored by United Nations
, to restore peace to the Island in a conflict which has been going on for 37 years. She extended the work to study the bringing about of peace in the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish communities.
She carried out specialized studies in different parts of the world and she has three diplomas for war correspondents. She obtained two grant from the New Journalism Foundation of Colombia, is a member of the Media Corporation Network for Peace of Colombia, the International Journalist Federation, the Latin American Journalist Federation and the International Press Club of Madrid, among others.
She teaches and lectures on, journalists in high risk areas and is author of the Curricular Program of the International Course for correspondents in conflict zones and Peace Operations. She held the position as co-director of the above mentioned academic activity and gave lectures in Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Cuba and Israel.
In 2003, she was selected as tutor of the First Virtual Seminar New Journalism, prevailed by the Gabriel García Márquez
, Literature Nobel Prize
and organized by the Monterrey Virtual Technology University and the Latin American New Journalism Foundation which has its seat in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
, Lebanon
Lebanon
Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...
, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, Libya
Libya
Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between Jewish and Zionist yishuv and the Arab population living in Palestine under Ottoman or...
from the Second Intifada up to Israel's military offensive on Gaza Strip
Gaza Strip
thumb|Gaza city skylineThe Gaza Strip lies on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Strip borders Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the south, east and north. It is about long, and between 6 and 12 kilometres wide, with a total area of...
in 2009 and the anniversary in 2010.
Since February 2011 covers the rebellion in Libya and Egypt.
She is a member of honor of the World Peace Summit and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma) - based at the University of Washington - that recognizes and promotes excellence in reporting violence and trains journalists on issues related to trauma in collaboration with International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Career
Marón is an Argentine journalist specialized in the coverage of armed conflicts and international politics. She continues to carry out her work as a freelance correspondent from Iraq, since April 2004 up to 2009, for NBCNBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
-Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
(United States), BBC World
BBC World
BBC World News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel. It has the largest audience of any BBC channel in the world...
(United Kingdom), Radio France International, El Universal
El Universal (Mexico City)
El Universal is a major Mexican newspaper.El Universal was founded by Félix Palavicini and Emilio Rabasa in October 1916, in the city of Santiago de Queretaro to cover the end of the Mexican Revolution and the creation of the new Mexican Constitution...
(Mexico), El Tiempo, El Espectador
El Espectador
El Espectador is a newspaper with national circulation within Colombia, founded by Fidel Cano Gutiérrez on 22 March 1887 in Medellín and published since 1915 in Bogotá...
, Caracol Radio
Caracol Radio
Caracol Radio is one of the main radio networks in Colombia. Founded in Medellín in 1948 when La Voz de Antioquia station acquired the 50% of Emisoras Nuevo Mundo, based in Bogotá....
(Colombia), Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), El Mercurio
El Mercurio
El Mercurio is a conservative Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago. Its Santiago edition is considered the country's paper-of-record and its Valparaíso edition is the oldest daily in the Spanish language currently in circulation. El Mercurio is owned by El Mercurio S.A.P...
(Chile), Perfil
Perfil
Perfil is an Argentine tabloid newspaper based in Buenos Aires.- History :The newspaper was first launched by Jorge Fontevecchia on 9 May 1998 as a daily newspaper, but poor sales forced its closure on 31 July of the same year....
weekly magazine, and Télam
Télam
Télam is the Argentine national news agency founded in 1945. It provides news and information to about 300 subscribers, including government entities and national and international media. It operates as a state enterprise...
of Argentina. Besides, she has contributed to Radio Cooperativa
Radio Cooperativa
Radio Cooperativa is a radio station in Chile, based in Providencia. It is operated by Compañía Chilena de Comunicaciones S.A.. The station is notable for opposing the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship and denouncing its human rights violations....
(Chile), Espectador Radio (Uruguay) and Azteca Television (Mexico).
She is recognized widely by her professional labor in Iraq during the military American occupation. From this risky coverage, speaker has spread during the last four years all the news events of the country for the Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
world. Her works spread from the coverage of the fourth anniversary of the invasion in 2007, Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
's trial and his execution, the first elections to make up the Constitutional Assembly
Constitutional Assembly
The Constitutional Assembly was a body elected in 1955 to draw up a permanent constitution for the Republic of Indonesia. It sat between November 10, 1956 and July 2, 1959...
, the Constitutional Referendum and the Parliamentary elections during the military occupation
Military occupation
Military occupation occurs when the control and authority over a territory passes to a hostile army. The territory then becomes occupied territory.-Military occupation and the laws of war:...
in 2005.
Later during 2004 to 2011, she gave coverage to the successive changes in power, the first elections to make up the Constitutional Assembly
Constitutional Assembly
The Constitutional Assembly was a body elected in 1955 to draw up a permanent constitution for the Republic of Indonesia. It sat between November 10, 1956 and July 2, 1959...
, the Constitutional Referendum and the Parliamentary elections during the military occupation
Military occupation
Military occupation occurs when the control and authority over a territory passes to a hostile army. The territory then becomes occupied territory.-Military occupation and the laws of war:...
.She met with different Iraqi groups, including Mahdi Army
Mahdi Army
The Mahdi Army, also known as the Mahdi Militia or Jaish al-Mahdi , was an Iraqi paramilitary force created by the Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003....
, led by cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr
Muqtada al-Sadr
Sayyid Muqtadā al-Ṣadr is an Iraqi Islamic political leader.Along with Ali al-Sistani and Ammar al-Hakim of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Sadr is one of the most influential religious and political figures in the country not holding any official title in the Iraqi government.-Titles:He is...
and in secrecy, with Ba'ath Party members. Her work stands out for her written and broadcast reports on the humanitarian, economic, social and general situation of the country during the occupation period, with special emphasis on the war victims.
From April to August 2004, and during the whole of 2005 she has been the only Latin American journalist in Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
working simultaneously for up to 12 different communications media. Her coverage of the tortures in the Abu Ghraib
Abu Ghraib
The city of Abu Ghraib in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq is located just west of Baghdad's city center, or northwest of Baghdad International Airport. It has a population of 189,000. The old road to Jordan passes through Abu Ghraib...
jails, in May 2004, were published exclusively and for the first time in Latin America by Colombia's El Espectador. She worked in the cities of Baghdad
Baghdad
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...
, Najaf
Najaf
Najaf is a city in Iraq about 160 km south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2008 is 560,000 people. It is the capital of Najaf Governorate...
, Kerbala, Kufa
Kufa
Kufa is a city in Iraq, about south of Baghdad, and northeast of Najaf. It is located on the banks of the Euphrates River. The estimated population in 2003 was 110,000....
, Falluja, Kirkuk
Kirkuk
Kirkuk is a city in Iraq and the capital of Kirkuk Governorate.It is located in the Iraqi governorate of Kirkuk, north of the capital, Baghdad...
and Suleimania in Kurdistan.
Before that, she was witness to conflicts and the post-conflict periods in the Middle East, Colombia, Peru and Cyprus for several international media.
In the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East during 2000 and 2001, she dealt with topics such as the peace process, the Second Intifada and the visit to Bethlehem
Bethlehem
Bethlehem is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank of the Jordan River, near Israel and approximately south of Jerusalem, with a population of about 30,000 people. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate of the Palestinian National Authority and a hub of Palestinian culture and tourism...
of Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini , popularly known as Yasser Arafat or by his kunya Abu Ammar , was a Palestinian leader and a Laureate of the Nobel Prize. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization , President of the Palestinian National Authority...
during Christmas on Jubilee year, interviewing the top Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i and Palestinian
Palestinian people
The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...
dignitaries. She also covered the confrontations in Ramallah
Ramallah
Ramallah is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem, adjacent to al-Bireh. It currently serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority...
and Beit Jala
Beit Jala
Beit Jala is an Arab Christian town in the Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank. Beit Jala is located 10 km south of Jerusalem, on the western side of the Hebron road, opposite Bethlehem, at altitude...
.
In Colombia, her interview with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army is a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization based in Colombia which is involved in the ongoing Colombian armed conflict, currently involved in drug dealing and crimes against the civilians..FARC-EP is a peasant army which...
(FARC), when they declared themselves to be a "State in the making", was considered by specialists as the "interview of the year for 2001" and her work done with women guerrillas won international recognition for its humanitarian content.
There, she also covered the drama of those internally displaced and, in the Putumayo region, worked on the topic of fumigations with glifosate that affects thousands of rural and indigenous people. Amongst her outstanding special investigations is the one on the links between the FARC and International Terrorism.
In 2003, she worked in Peru on Sendero Luminoso's/ Shining Path's possible resurgence, interviewing members of that organization. She did special research regarding the Truth Commission and the consequences of political violence.
In March of the same year she gave coverage to the Peace Keeping Operation in Cyprus (UNFICYP) in the light of the possible peace agreement between Greece and Turkey, sponsored by United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
, to restore peace to the Island in a conflict which has been going on for 37 years. She extended the work to study the bringing about of peace in the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish communities.
She carried out specialized studies in different parts of the world and she has three diplomas for war correspondents. She obtained two grant from the New Journalism Foundation of Colombia, is a member of the Media Corporation Network for Peace of Colombia, the International Journalist Federation, the Latin American Journalist Federation and the International Press Club of Madrid, among others.
She teaches and lectures on, journalists in high risk areas and is author of the Curricular Program of the International Course for correspondents in conflict zones and Peace Operations. She held the position as co-director of the above mentioned academic activity and gave lectures in Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Cuba and Israel.
In 2003, she was selected as tutor of the First Virtual Seminar New Journalism, prevailed by the Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
, Literature Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
and organized by the Monterrey Virtual Technology University and the Latin American New Journalism Foundation which has its seat in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
Awards and recognition
- 2010. PortaPaz Award. Seminario Galego de Educación para la Paz. Foundation for a Culture of Peace. Spain. Honor given annually to individuals or entities that stand in the defense of civic and democratic values, human rights and culture of peace. The award was presented by the Galician writer Manuel Rivas journalist and photojournalist Gervasio Sanchez. This prestigious distinction was awarded in previous years to Dr. Federico Mayor Zaragoza,-president of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace and for twelve years who was director general of UNESCO-, Amnesty International, Catalan Institute for Peace Research Center for Peace and Judge Baltasar Garzon.
- 2009. Women Entrepreneurs Organization Argentina and Argentine SenateArgentine SenateThe Argentine Senate is the upper house of the Argentine National Congress. It has 72 senators: three for each province and three for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires...
. Award International Day of the Woman 2009 inside the category of Leader Women for "the transcendency of her labor and her contribution to the well-being of the society". - 2008. Foundation Avicena. Recognition of the Merit, for her encomiable professional path, distinction shared with other personalities of the journalistic occupation, of the art and the Argentine culture.
- 2007.Argentine SenateArgentine SenateThe Argentine Senate is the upper house of the Argentine National Congress. It has 72 senators: three for each province and three for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires...
. She was honoured on the Journalists' Day for her outstanding international development. - 2007. Rotary InternationalRotary InternationalRotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help...
appointed her as Honoris Causa Member as she has fulfilled the principle of "offering herself to those who are in need and Giving of Her before Thinking of Her". - 2007. Legislative House of Buenos Aires City, she was awarded with the Ugarit Distinction for the Youth Revelation of the Year Award at the a prize which was also received by Diego TorresDiego TorresDiego Antonio Caccia Torres , is an Argentine Grammy Award-nominated pop singer and composer.-Biography:Diego Torres was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Argentine singer Lolita Torres...
, the worldwide famous Argentine musician. - 2006. International Press Club of Madrid, which groups together foreign correspondents in Spain, awarded her the Recognition Prize for her outstanding work in Iraq.
- 2005. Honorable Senate of the Province of Buenos AiresBuenos AiresBuenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
named her Prominent Person in the province for the year in recognition of her international journalistic work in conflict zones. - 2005. Award by the Moreno Business Association (UEM).
- 2005. Prize Héctor Germán OesterheldHéctor Germán OesterheldHéctor Germán Oesterheld , also known as his common abbreviation HGO, was an Argentine journalist and writer of graphic novels and comics who has come to be celebrated as a master in his field....
for her work on armed conflicts and a special distinction. - 2004. Illustrious Citizen of the Moreno District in Buenos Aires, her place of birth.
- 2004. Rotary InternationalRotary InternationalRotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help...
Prize The Prominent Young Woman of 2004. - 2004. Rotary InternationalRotary InternationalRotary International is an organization of service clubs known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help...
Prize Professional Excellence. - 2003. Prize Henry DunantHenry DunantJean Henri Dunant , aka Henry Dunant, was a Swiss businessman and social activist. During a business trip in 1859, he was witness to the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in modern day Italy...
for the best written press work published in the Southern Cone, for her article "Women Guerrilla", in the Contest on Humanitarian Journalism, organized by the International Red Cross Committee. - 2002. Argentinean Joint Peace-Keeping Training Center. CAECOPAZ. Member of Honor.
News and media
- February 18, 2009: "Siendo corresponsal de guerra, intento la búsqueda de la paz" La impactante historia de Karen Marón. Revista Cosmopolitan. Argentina. Edición 150. CASOS REALES.
- December 17, 2008: "Periodistas bajo riesgo". Diario Noroeste. El Portal de Sinaloa. México. Conferencia de Karen Marón en el curso de Periodismo en Ambientes Hostiles organizado por la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa.
- December 7, 2008: "Hacer periodismo en campo minado" . Diario El Comercio. Lima. Perú.Conferencia de Karen Marón en el Centro Argentino de Entrenamiento Conjunto para Operaciones de Paz de Naciones Unidas.
- December 6, 2008: "La injusticia femenina de las guerras". Reflexiones de Karen Marón sobre la situación de las mujeres en las guerrasDiario de Navarra. España..
- July 21, 2008: "Periodismo y Derechos Humanos se dan la mano". Karen Marón en la firma del Manifiesto de Periodismo y Derechos Humanos del XII Encuentro Internacional de Fotoperiodismo en Gijón Diario El País. Madrid. España.
- July 18, 2008: "Los fotoperiodistas demandan el compromiso de la prensa con los derechos humanos", por Javier Bauluz, Eduardo Meneses, Karen Marón, Eduardo Márquez, Walter Astrada, Jesús Abad Colorado, Juan Medina y otros. Diario El Mundo. XII Encuentro Intermacional de Fotoperiodismo. Gijón. España.
- June 4, 2008: Cruz Roja Española. Madrid. España. "La protecciòn de la mujeres en los conflictos armados"
- June 3, 2008: 23 ALNAP Biannual Meeting. Madrid. España. Conferencia "Periodismo y Crisis Humanitaria con Peter Arnett, Karen Marón, Giuliana Sgrena, Alan Nairn y Leslie Crawford"
- April 15, 2008: Alta Política. Primer Observatorio de las Relaciones Exteriores. Argentina. "Reconocimiento a Karen Marón. Periodista y corresponsal de guerra".
- March 1, 2008: Se informa. Canadá. "Karen Marón: El proceso de escuchar a las víctimas".
- October 19, 2007: International Armenian Network. "La corresponsal de guerra Karen Marón distinguida con el premio DISTINCIÓN UGARIT 2007".
- August 21, 2007: Periodismo 1837. TEA. Argentina. Conferencia: Coberturas internacionales.
- June 14, 2007: "Karen Marón: La Voz de las Víctimas" Revista Semana.
- June 7, 2007: "El Senado homenajea a la periodista Karen Marón" Radio Francia Internacional.
- February 1, 2007: "El laberinto iraquí" Revista DEF. Argentina.
- May 30, 2006: "Karen Marón: Historias humanas detrás de los conflictos" Caracol Radio. Colombia Universal.
- March 21, 2006:"Repórter argentina premiada em Espanha" O sitio do Sindicato dos Jornalistas. Brasil.
- February 14, 2006: "Premian a periodista argentina por labor en Bagdad" La periodista Karen Marón, corresponsal de EL UNIVERSAL en Irak, obtuvo el Premio Reconocimiento 2005, que concede el Club Internacional de Prensa de España El Universal. México.
- January 9, 2006:Entrevista a la corresponsal de guerra Karen Marón: "El cáncer en Irak aumentó un 1.200% por el uso de uranio" Faro de Vigo. España.
- October 25, 2005: "En el Palestine está el recuerdo de Couso" Periodista Digital. España.
- April 23, 2005: "Karen Marón:O dia-a-dia de uma correspondente de guerra no Iraque" Revista Claudia. Brazil. (in Portuguese)
- March 1, 2005: "Ir al infierno para buscar el paraíso" Revista Bohemia. Cuba.
- January 30, 2005: "Mesmo sob fogo, é preciso ficar" Federação Nacional dos Jornalistas. Brazil.
- January 4, 2005: "Karen Marón: Corresponsal de guerra" Mujeres Hoy. Internacional.
- January 2, 2005: "Direto de Bagdá, receita de pão crocante" Observatório da Imprensa. Brazil.
- December 19, 2004: "Periodistas en Iraq: el infierno tan temido" International News Safety Institute. Estados Unidos. by Karen Marón
- May 18, 2004: "Irak: Un desastre humanitario" Página/12. Argentina. Entrevista a Karen Marón.
- March 8, 2004:"Mujeres y conflictos armados: una lucha en todos los frentes" Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja. Homenaje a Karen Marón en el Día Internacional de la Mujer.
- January 17, 2004: "Pasiones que desafían el miedo: La otra cara de los conflictos" La Nación Line. Argentina.
- January 7, 2004: "Karen Marón: Una mujer que va al frente" Mujeres Hoy. Internacional.
- August 20, 2003: "Una periodista humanizando los conflictos" La Librínsula de los Libros. El Salvador.
See also
- Algunos artículos. Folha de Sao Paulo.
- Otros artículos de Karen Marón