El Nuevo Herald
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| El Nuevo Herald | |
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 The December 26, 2006 front page of El Nuevo Herald |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | The McClatchy Company |
| Publisher | David Landsberg |
| Editor | Humberto Castelló |
| Founded | 1977 (as El Herald) |
| Language | Spanish |
| Headquarters | One Herald Plaza Miami, FL 33132-1693  United States |
| Circulation | 86,898 Daily 98,261 Sunday[1] |
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| Website: www.elnuevoherald.com | |
El Nuevo Herald is a McClatchy newspaper published daily in Spanish in Miami, Florida, in the United States. The Herald's sister paper is The Miami Herald, also produced by the McClatchy Company.
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[edit] History
In 1976 The Miami Herald began to publish a Spanish language supplemental insert named El Herald. In 1987 Roberto Suárez was named as the supplement's first independent publisher, and the paper was re-launched as El Nuevo Herald. Still available only to readers of the English language Herald, the paper didn't become a separate product until 1998.[2]
This supplemental insert received a vast amount of support and "by 1981 circulation reached 83,000 on weekdays and 94,000 for weekend editions (Kent 454). Currently, El Nuevo Herald is published as an independent paper and statistics indicate that 100, 000 copies circulate per weekday (Kent 454). Due to the success of El Nuevo Herald in Miami and the growth of the Hispanic population within Florida, "Spanish-language newspapers are now published in adjacent Hialeah and Fort Lauderdale. This expansion can be seen at a statewide level as well, for Tampa, Orlando, and Immokalee each have Spanish-language newspapers" (Kent 454).
[edit] Government-paid journalists
On September 8, 2006, the publisher of the Miami Herald Jesús Díaz Jr., fired three El Nuevo Herald journalists because they freelanced for Radio/TV Marti, a U.S. Government News Agency. The three were Pablo Alfonso, Wilfredo Cancio Isla and Olga Connor.[3]. Less than a month later, Diaz was instructed by his superiors at The McClatchy Company, the parent company of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, to re-hire the three journalist in question because they had prior approval to freelance for Radio/TV Marti from their supervisor at the time, El Nuevo Herald executive editor Carlos Castaneda. Díaz resigned after reinstating the fired journalists.
[edit] References
- Kent, Robert B. and Maura E. Huntz. "Spanish-Language Newspapers in the United States". Geographical Review, Vol. 86, No. 3, Latin American Geography. (1996), pp. 446-456.
