La Jornada

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Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid

Owner
Publisher	Desarrollo de Medios SA de CV
Editor	Carmen Lira Saade
Founded	1984
Language	Spanish
Headquarters	Mexico City, Mexico
Circulation	National

Website: www.jornada.unam.mx

La Jornada is one of Mexico City's leading daily newspapers. It was established in 1984 by Carlos Payán Velver. The current editor (directora general) is Carmen Lira Saade. La Jornada has presence in seven states of the Mexican Republic with local editions in Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, San Luis Potosí, Puebla and Veracruz (La Jornada de Oriente). It has approximately 287,000 readers in Mexico City^[1] and according to alexa.com it ranks, along with El Universal, as one of the most visited newspaper on the web in Mexico.^[2].

La Jornada caters to center-left stances in Mexico City, criticizing the PAN and PRI administrations, including their economic policies. Its editorials are also sympathetic toward the Zapatista (EZLN) movement and the center-left Democratic Revolutionary Party and have supported the recently legalized same-sex civil unions in Mexico City and the legalization of abortion.

The online version was launched in 1995, with no restrictions on access and a Google based search that includes the historic archives of the Newspaper. The website is hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

1 Contributors
2 Criticism
3 Significant Stories
4 See also
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Contributors

Many of the newspaper's editorialists have academic affiliations with the UNAM or the Colegio de México.

Julio Hernández López
Jose Steinsleger
Eduardo Galeano (Former Contributor)
Miguel Angel Rivera
Carlos Fernández-Vega
Alfredo Jalife Rahme
Julio Boltvinik Kalinka
Marlene Santos
Patricia Peñaloza
Mario Di Costanzo
Gustavo Iruegas
Iván Restrepo
Arnoldo Kraus
Enrique Galvan Ochoa
Carlos Fazio
Gustavo Esteva
León Bendesky
Elena Poniatowska
Hermann Bellinghausen
José Cueli
Leonardo Garcia Tsao
Mario Benedetti
Carlos Monsivais
John Saxe Fernandez

It occasionally translates and includes op-eds from Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky, James Petras, Howard Zinn, Greg Palast and others.

[edit] Criticism

Since its conception, the newspaper has been accused of censorship, being ideologically driven, biased, having an unfair process to choose the newspapers director among other things by people like Sergio Aguayo, Luis González de Alba, Pablo Gómez and José Paoli Bolio ^[3]

[edit] Significant Stories

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La Jornada documented for the first time the origin of the feud between Colombia's Gabriel García Márquez and the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.