
Hebert Abimorad is a Uruguayan-born journalist, translator and poet.

Olegario Víctor Andrade (1839–1882) was an Argentine journalist, poet and politician, who was born in Brazil. His daughter, Agustina Andrade, was also a poet.

Santiago Arcos (1822–1874) was a Chilean journalist, politician and writer. He wrote a treatise La cuestion de los indios: las fonteras y los indios (1860), that called for military action against indigenous people.

Diana Frida Arón Svigilisky was a Chilean journalist and a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria party. She was kidnapped, tortured and forcibly disappeared by agents of the Pinochet dictatorship.

Lucho Avilés was a Uruguayan-born Argentine journalist and television presenter.

Washington Beltrán Barbat was a Uruguayan political figure and journalist.

Carlos Cadena Gaitan is a professor, research and urban activist. Cadena Gaitan holds a Ph.D from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, and is an affiliated researcher with the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT). He has served as a columnist for El Mundo, Las2orillas, Telemedellín and Al Poniente, focused on a variety of urban issues and quality of life.

Javier Enrique Cárdenas Escalona, better known as TopoMagico or Topo Mágico, is a Venezuelan Journalist, reporter and activist for the rights of immigrants and a member of the non-governmental organization, Alliance for Venezuela.

Raquel Teresa Correa was a Chilean journalist who spent the main part of her career with the newspaper El Mercurio. She was well known for her interviews and reporting, and was the recipient of Chile's National Prize for Journalism in 1991.

Emiliano Cotelo is a Uruguayan journalist and radio personality, known for his interviews with local and international politicians. His morning radio show “En Perspectiva” has been on the air continuously since 1985. Emiliano Cotelo is married to journalist and producer Alexandra Morgan. They have two sons and one daughter.

Marisol Espinoza Cruz is a Peruvian politician who was the First Vice President of Peru during Humala administration 2011–2016. She has been a Congresswoman representing Piura since 2006. Espinoza belongs to the Peruvian Nationalist Party.

Jenny María Estrada Ruiz is an Ecuadorian writer and journalist.

Rodrigo Fresán is a fiction writer and journalist. Since 1999, Fresán has lived and worked in Barcelona, Spain. His books have been translated into many languages.

Daniel Frescó is an Argentinian journalist and author.

Juanita María Gómez Lora is a Colombian journalist and presenter of news.

Luis Alberto de Herrera was a Uruguayan lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician.

Jorge Alberto Jacobson was an Argentine radio and television journalist and newscaster. He was anchor of Telefe Noticias from 1997 to 2010 and as host in AM Del Plata, Radio 10 and Radio Continental.

Andres "Andy" Kusnetzoff is an Argentine journalist, TV host and producer. He worked in TV shows as "Turno Tarde" and "El Rayo", but became famous with his role as an informal journalist in Caiga Quien Caiga. He worked from 1995 to 1999. Since then, he was the host of "Maldito Lunes" in Telefe (2000), "El bar" (2001) and "Escalera a la fama" (2003). In 2004 he hosted "somos como somos", renamed to "Argentinos por su nombre" in 2005.

Guido Ricardo Lombardi Elías is a Peruvian journalist, lawyer, and politician.Not to confused with Italian actor Guido Lombardi.

Isidoro de María (1815–1906) was a Uruguayan writer, historian, journalist, politician and diplomat.

Walter Nelson Martínez Martínez is a Venezuelan award-winning journalist, originally from Uruguay. Martínez's career spans over three decades in radio, television and the press. He is best known for his work in international relations, and also for using a patch in his right eye, due to a home plumbing accident.

Víctor Hugo Morales Pérez is a Uruguayan journalist, pundit and writer who has lived and worked in Argentina since 1981. As a football commentator, he has been regarded as one of the best in the Spanish-speaking world. In Argentina his commentary on Diego Maradona's second goal in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final was widely praised.

Benito Nardone Cetrulo was a Uruguayan journalist and political figure.

Fernando Niembro is an Argentine sports journalist and announcer.

Julia Daniela Pachón Rivera is a Colombian journalist and presenter of news. She graduated in Social Communication and Journalism from the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga. She is also a specialist in political marketing at the Universidad Externado de Colombia.

Roberto Alfredo Perfumo was an Argentine footballer and sports commentator. Nicknamed El Mariscal, Perfumo is considered as one of the best Argentine defenders ever. At club level, Perfumo played for Racing, River Plate and Brazilian team Cruzeiro. With the national team, he played the 1966 and 1974 World Cups.

Carlos Pinto is a popular Chilean journalist and television presenter. In 1984, he and Santiago Pavlovic began an investigative program called Informe Especial which airs in TVN. He is the father of the football player Sebastián Pinto. It was the driver of the reality The game of fear of TVN, which was taken off the air shortly after due to poor ratings.

Elisabetta Piqué is an Italian-born Argentine journalist, Vatican correspondent for the La Nación newspaper. She wrote the biography Pope Francis: Life and Revolution in 2013. The film Francis: Pray for me is based on her book, and the character of the actress Silvia Abascal is based on her.

Margarita Prieto Yegros was a Paraguayan writer, historian, and journalist.
Eduardo de la Puente is an Argentine journalist and television presenter. He is perhaps most famous for his participation in the popular television show Caiga Quien Caiga broadcast on Telefé.

Jorge Ricardo Rial is an Argentine TV host and businessman.

Liberato Marcial Rojas Cabral was provisional President of Paraguay from July 6, 1911 to February 28, 1912. He was President of the Senate of Paraguay at the time of becoming the President of the Republic. A journalist, he was a member of the Liberal Party.

Jesús Alberto Torrealba Rodríguez, also known as Chúo Torrealba, is a Venezuelan politician and journalist; Secretary-General of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) from September 24, 2014 to February 17, 2017.

Valentín Trujillo is an Uruguayan writer. He was born in Maldonado in 1979. He studied cinema at the Cinemateca Uruguaya and journalism at the Universidad Católica. In 2005, he started working as a journalist for El Observador newspaper in Montevideo. In 2007, he won the Premio Nacional de Narrativa Juan José Morosoli for his book of short stories Jaula de costillas. He contributed a story in an anthology titled Sobrenatural, published in 2012 by Estuario Editora. His second book of stories is titled Entre los jíbaros. He has also published a biography of the Uruguayan scholar Carlos Real de Azúa.

Juan Pablo Varsky is an Argentine sports journalist. He works at the newspaper La Nación, at the TV program "Más que Fútbol" and the radio program "No somos nadie". He made a cameo in the 2012 Argentine telenovela Graduados.

Daniel de la Vega was a Chilean journalist, poet, playwright, chronicler, and novelist.

Bernardo Verbitsky was an Argentine writer and journalist.

Pablo Vierci is a Uruguayan journalist, author, and screenwriter.