Grupo Reforma
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| Type | Daily newspapers |
| Format | newsprint |
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| Owner | Grupo Reforma |
| Editor | Lazaro Rios |
| Founded | 1922 |
| Headquarters | Av. México Coyoacán 40, Col. Santa Cruz Atoyac Del. Benito Juárez 03310, México DF Phone. +52 (55) 5628 7100 |
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| Website: www.reforma.com | |
Grupo Reforma is one of the largest newspaper companies in Mexico. It publishes 9 daily newspapers in 4 cities, including the leading newspapers in Mexico's 3 largest cities. Reforma in Mexico City, El Norte in Monterrey and Mural in Guadalajara. It also publishes Palabra in Saltillo, as well as the dailies Metro in Mexico city, Monterrey, Guadalajara and Saltillo, and the afternoon tabloid El Sol in Monterrey. The average daily circulation of all these papers is 1.2 million copies.
The group also owns the largest content-intensive Internet Web Sites in Mexico, reforma.com, elnorte.com, mural.com and palabra.com. It owns the largest newswire service with Mexican information, Agencia Reforma. It currently has partnerships with two leading US newspapers to publish, Cancha, a tabloid with Mexican sports and entertainment news. Cancha is published biweekly in San Antonio with The San Antonio Express-News and weekly in Portland, Oregon in partnership with The Oregonian.
Grupo Reforma has strategic alliances with leading US dailies to publish their information in its papers, including a daily section of The Wall Street Journal and a weekly section of The New York Times.
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[edit] History
The newsgroup was started with the founding of "El Sol" in April of 1922, followed by El Norte in 1938, Monterrey's Metro in 1988, Reforma in 1993, Palabra and Mexico city's Metro in 1997, Mural in 1998, Saltillo's Metro in 2004 and Guadalajara's Metro in 2005.
When Reforma started in Mexico City, the newspaper carrier union boycotted the distribution of this diary in because Reforma was printed and distributed in holidays (such as January the 1st), and its distribution by the carrier union would violate the union contract. Because of this Grupo Reforma decided created an independent distribution channel in Mexico city's streets with the use of free agents. Because this was considered by some an act of censorship, a few intellectuals, artists and other public figures that were contributors of the paper, joined Reforma's personnel in selling the newspaper on the streets. Currently, Reforma is distributed to supermarkets and other retail outlets and to readers in Mexico city's streets by independent agenst. The paper's daily circulation averages 200,000 copies.
Grupo Reforma's dailies have a unique "open journalism" model. This model is based on the use of editorial boards for each of the sections of the paper. This board is made of regular readers and opinion leaders in the section's area of interest. The board meets weekly or bi-monthly and sets the section's editorial agenda. For example, the editorial board of Reforma's "National" section may include a Diputado (member of house of representatives), a Senator, members of a NGO's, as well as regular readers. Each board has complete liberty in setting what the paper is covering. The board is leaded by each section's editor, so the board members are working with the person who is directly responsible for the daily operation of the section.
Each year, 850 people are part of the 70 editorial boards that define the editorial agenda for all of Grupo Reforma's papers. More than 8,000 people have been members of an editorial board during the 15 years that they have been in operation. Participation is voluntary, so no payment is given out to the board members. The boards are renewed every year, but two members are chosen to stay, to allow for continuity. Every quarter, the editor gives his/her board a balance of all the suggestions they've provided and how they have been implemented in the section.
[edit] Criticism
Grupo Reforma was created by Alejandro Junco and Rodolfo Junco Jr. from the fusion of two companies, Editora el Sol S.A. and Ediciones del Norte S.A, both founded by Rodolfo Junco de la Vega, Alejandro's and Rodolfo's grandfather.[citation needed]
The independent journalism model of Grupo Reforma has been labeled as "right wing" by other media outlets. The news group has also been the victim of attacks, from politicians and other groups whose interests have been affected by the stories published in the newspapers that are part of the group.[citation needed]
