Denisse maerker

A leader I admire

  • Birth

    Denise Maerker was born in Mexico City
  • Return

    She returned from Paris to Mexico in 1994 to finish her doctoral thesis on presidential succession but upon her return she saw that politics in her country was very bad so she decided to do a study on it.
  • Period: to

    Highlight

    She joined the program “realities” where she gained fame for being an aggressive, but forceful and daring interviewer.
  • Judge

    She was a judge of the national journalism prize.
  • Prize

    Prize
    She receives the Pedro Sarquis Merrewe prize.
  • Channel 2

    Channel 2
    Appointed host of televisa’s channel 2 nightly star news, the first woman to do so.
  • Ratings

    Ratings
    The news program headed by Denise Maerker ‘En Punto’ took first place in rating, leaving Javier Alatorre’s ‘Hechos de la Noche’ in a distant second place.
  • Interview

    Interview
    Interview with Peña Nieto towards the end of his six-year term
  • Reply to amlo

    Reply to amlo
    Responds publicly to López Obrador after published list of journalists’ contracts during Peña Nieto’s six-year term
  • Powerful women list

    Powerful women list
    She appeared on the expansion group’s 100 most powerful women list