María Cristina Uribe is a 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...

n journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

 and news presenter

News presenter

A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

 born in Medellín

Medellín

Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...

. Between 2002 and 2011 she presented Noticias Uno

Noticias Uno

Noticias Uno is a nightly Colombian newscast produced by NTC Televisión and aired weekends and holidays on state-owned privately-run Canal Uno....

.

Ms Uribe majored in Social Communication

Social communication

The term social communication refers to using the so-called social media. However there is no standardised definition yet recognised. Generally communication requires a social nexus of at least two entities in a technical or just social relation...

 and Journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

 from Pontifical Bolivarian University

Pontifical Bolivarian University

The Pontifical Bolivarian University , also referred to as UPB, is a private university in Colombia with its main campus in Medellín, where it was founded in 1936. Currently, the university has campuses in other Colombian cities, such as Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Montería and Palmira...

 in 1991. Her television debut was on a programme in regional channel Teleantioquia, where she would later present a newscast.

Later, Uribe would appear on national newscasts such as QAP Noticias and Noticiero de las Siete on Canal A

Canal A

Canal A was a Colombian state-owned privately run national television channel. It was launched March 27, 1972 as Segunda Cadena, since it was the second television channel in Colombia, and replacing Tele 9 Corazón...

 and CM&

CM&

CM& is a 1992 colombian News program created by Yamid Amat and Juan Gossaín and aired on RTVC´s Canal Uno.- The & :CM& are the acronyms of Compañía de Medios de Información, the & was adopted in 1993- External links :* News List* News List*...

on Canal Uno. In 1998 she would move to Caracol Noticias until 2002, where she joined Noticias Uno.

Ms Uribe left Colombia between 2005 and 2007 after receiving, with her husband Daniel Coronell

Daniel Coronell

Daniel Coronell is a Colombian journalist and VP of News of Univision network in the United States. He has also been editor in chief of the Colombian national newscasts Noticias Uno, NTC Noticias and Noticias RCN. He has been a TV journalist since the beginning of his career...

, death threats. Coronell was the director of Noticias Uno.

External links

• Profile in Noticias Uno (Spanish)