Juan Carlos Rincón

Opinion Editor at El Espectador, Director at La Pulla, journalist and writer, Colombia

Juan Carlos Rincón Escalante is a journalist and three-time winner of the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award. He is also a best-selling author, university professor, lecturer, and lawyer with a Master’s degree in Law (Research) from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá). He works as the Opinion Editor of the newspaper El Espectador (Colombia). There, he helped create several digital projects, including La Pulla and La Puesverdad, which have over a million followers and hundreds of millions of views. In 2020, together with Cecilia Ramos, he published the illustrated book “La depresión (no) existe” (Depression (Does Not) Exist), which has sold over 20,000 copies and is in its 16th edition in Colombia, and it was also published in Spain and Mexico. He was a professor of Opinion Journalism at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá for five years and also taught at the Universidad de los Andes.