The San Juan Star

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The San Juan Star
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid

Owner	The San Juan Star, Inc.
Founded	1959
Language	English
Headquarters

Website: http://www.thesanjuanstar.com

The San Juan Star is an English-language, Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The newspaper is the flagship publication of Star Media Network, a subdivision of San Juan Star, Inc., which also owns San Juan City Magazine, El Mayagüez Star, and El Ponce Star, among other publications.

The newspaper was founded in 1959, and was intended for the English-speaking population in Puerto Rico. Pulitzer Prize winning novelist William Kennedy was once the managing editor of the Star, soon after its inception to 1961. ^[1]

In 1997, The San Juan Star began an attempt to expand its audience by introducing a Spanish version of the same newspaper, called "El San Juan Star" (as opposed to "The..."). The latter started as an exact translation of the English edition but has since become a publication filled with wire service stories given the lack of translators on staff.

Current staff of The San Juan Star includes a Capitol reporter, federal court reporter, a La Fortaleza reporter, Education reporter, environmental reporter, economics reporter, and a Washington DC correspondent, among other writers.

The Daily News, a fictional newspaper appearing in Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary and an upcoming film of the same name, is based on this newspaper as Thompson had befriended a number Star writers when living on the island in 1960.