Editing Isabel Allende (section)

===Journalism===
[[File:Girl Power at TED conference 2007 by jurvetson.jpg|thumb|250px|Allende (in red, 3rd L to R), 2007, at [[TED (conference)|TED]] in California, flanked (L to R) by [[June Cohen]], [[Lakshmi Pratury]] and [[Tracy Chapman]]]]
Beginning in 1967, Allende was on the editorial staff of ''Paula'' magazine and the children's magazine [[Mampato]] from 1969 to 1974, where she later became the editor.<ref name="Glance">{{Cite news|first=Maya|last=Jaggi|author-link=Maya Jaggi|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/feb/05/isabelallende.fiction|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508221632/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/feb/05/isabelallende.fiction|url-status=live|archive-date=8 May 2014|title=''Life at a glance:'' A view from the bridge|date=5 February 2000|work=[[The Guardian]] Saturday Pages|location=London|page=6|access-date=25 March 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|quote='''Employment:''' Journalist, Paula Magazine, Santiago, 1967-74; [[Themo Lobos#Mampato magazine|Mampato Magazine]] 1969-74; [[Televisión Pública|Channel 7]] humorous programmes 1970–74; freelance, [[El Nacional (Venezuela)|El Nacional]], Caracas 1976–83. Administrator, Marrocco School, Caracas. 1979–83.}}</ref> She published two children's stories, "La Abuela Panchita" and "Lauchas y Lauchones", as well as a collection of articles, ''Civilice a Su Troglodita''. She also worked in Chilean television production for channels 7 and 13 from 1970 to 1974.<ref name="Glance"/> As a journalist, she once sought an interview with poet [[Pablo Neruda]]. Neruda agreed to the interview, and he told her that she had too much imagination to be a journalist and should be a novelist instead.<ref name="Companion"/> He also advised her to compile her satirical columns in book form.{{r|alter2010|p=W4|quote=... interviewed Pablo Neruda, the poet told her that she'd make a better novelist than a reporter. "I think he saw that I was a liar. As a journalist I could not be objective. I would make up stories ... At the time I was hurt because he said I was the worst journalist.}} She did so, and this became her first published book. In 1973, Allende's play ''El Embajador'' played in [[Santiago]] a few months before she was forced to flee the country due to the coup.

During her time in [[Venezuela]], Allende was a freelance journalist for ''[[El Nacional (Venezuela)|El Nacional]]'' in [[Caracas]] from 1976 to 1983 and an administrator of the Marrocco School in Caracas from 1979 to 1983.<ref name="Glance"/>