Folha de S. Paulo

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Folha de S.Paulo
The October 22, 2006 front page of Folha de S. Paulo.
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	Grupo Folha
Editor	Otavio Frias Filho
Founded	1921
Political allegiance	liberal
Headquarters	Al. Barão de Limeira, 425 São Paulo, Brasil

Website: www.folha.com.br

Folha de S. Paulo is a Portuguese language newspaper published in São Paulo, Brazil. It has the largest circulation in Latin America, with a daily print run of 1,500,000, and represents the development of the communication media in Brazil. It was part of many changes that occurred within Brazilian society after the fall of the dictatorship in late 1970. With the recovery of press freedom, the paper became an important channel for public expression. Folha de S. Paulo had an expressive role in the episode of the impeachment of President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992. Even though it is a newspaper from the state of São Paulo, it has a very broad influence on other states and on other media as well. Folha de S. Paulo presents a broad selection of news, with many small articles, notes and illustrated reporting. The paper attempts to give different sides of the same story and relies on a more visual appeal to present the news, using explanatory details, graphics, charts, and photographs.