QUEEN OF MEDIA
Doris Gibson’s name is not well-known outside her native Peru, but in her home country she cuts a figure as one of the most striking, brilliant, and influential journalists of the 20th century. As the founder of Peru’s most influential political and current affairs magazine Caretas, Gibson would have been a force to be reckoned with even without the journalistic legacy.
“Volcanic”, “free-spirited”, “unbridled”, and “legendary” were some of the adjectives used to describe the woman who saw off not only a succession of military dictators who repeatedly tried to silence her, but defined her own version of feminist independence in her own life in a country where women did not even vote until 1956. Fiercely strong-willed and sexually liberated at a time when women - especially Peruvian ‘society ladies’ - were expected to be demure and decorative, Gibson exemplified a
