Ana Baron


Ana Carmen Baron Supervielle was an Argentine writer and journalist, a correspondent for Clarín in her last 15 years.

Biography

The violent political turbulence of Argentina in the 1970s led Ana Baron to settle in Paris, where she graduated from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the Fondation National Sciences Politiques. In those years she became a correspondent of Editorial Atlántida, together with her colleagues Danielle Raymond and Silvina Lanús.
Beginning in 1985 she resided in the United States. Her colleagues recalled an anecdote from 1986:
In the 1990s she joined the already created Journalists' Association of Argentina, of which she was a member until November 2004, when she was part of the collective that resigned before its imminent dissolution.
From 1998 to 2013 she was the Washington, D.C. correspondent of the Buenos Aires newspaper Clarín, for which she had been a columnist in preceding years from New York.
In 1999 she was part of the group by King Juan Carlos for an investigation in the Clarín supplement Zona on the secret reports of the US Embassy.
Baron covered Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns, George W. Bush's presidency, and the rise of Barack Obama.
She was sent to international summits: those of the presidents of the region, those of the Group of 20, and the assemblies of the IMF, among others. Her notes on Bush's reaction to the Mar del Plata summit in 2005 anticipated the fall of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, a scoop reprinted by newspapers around the world.

Radio

Baron was part of the program Corresponsales en línea on the Buenos Aires station on Sundays from 10 am to 12 pm, along with Silvia Naishtat, Sofía Neiman, Paula Lugones, Silvia Pisani, Danielle Raymond, and María Laura Avignolo.

Personal life

Ana Baron was married to economist Pablo Spiller. She was the sister of writer and the cousin of writer.
She died from cancer in New York City on 21 August 2015 at age 65.

Books