Claudia Morales (journalist)


Claudia Morales Medina is a journalist, broadcaster, and presenter on Colombian radio and television. She is recognized as one of the leading voices on Colombia radio.

Life

Claudia Morales was born in Villavicencio and then moved to Bogotá to study journalism at the Universidad of the Sabana. She began her journalistic career in the newspaper La Prensa, with Juan Carlos Pastrana. Later she was part of the journalistic writing of TV news programs HOY, CM& with Yamid Amat, Mauricio Vargas and Ricardo Santamaría, and Noticias Uno. Then she traveled to the United States where she worked as international press officer of the presidency of Álvaro Uribe between 2003 and 2004. In 2005, she worked on the W Radio network, with Julio Sánchez Cristo, Felix de Bedout and Alberto Casas Santamaría until 2009.
In 2011, she returned to Colombia to direct with Darío Arizmendi, Diana Calderón, Erika Fontalvo, Camilo Durán Casas, and Gustavo Gómez Córdoba in Caracol Radio in the programs of Hoy por Hoy and Hora 20. In 2013 and 2017, she directed the Luciérnaga with Hernán Peláez later with Gustavo Gómez Córdoba. In 2016, she was threatened by police officers after revealing secrets on her radio program with journalist Vicky Dávila in The Fellowship of the Ring scandal in which she received criticism for her work.