The January 31, 1944 front page of Pichilemu |
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| Type | Newspaper |
|---|---|
| Editor | Carlos Rojas Pavez (1944–1949) Washington Saldías (1986–1990; 2000–present as Pichilemu News) |
| Founded | 1944 |
| Headquarters | Pichilemu |
Pichilemu (Spanish: Periódico Pichilemu) was a Pichileminian newspaper published for the first time in 1944 by Carlos Rojas Pavez, municipal secretary and mayor of Pichilemu from 1967 to 1971.[1]
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Augusto O. Ramírez, a newspaper editor from San Fernando, founded the first newspaper in Pichilemu, called El Puerto, on January 16, 1908.[1] Nine years later, on January 14, 1917, he founded El Marino, which was published in 33 different editions.[1]
Carlos Rojas Pavez, who had been working as municipal secretary of Pichilemu since 1937, founded on January 31, 1944 founded the Pichilemu newspaper.[1] Six days before, on January 25, Rojas along with José Arraño Acevedo and Miguel Larravide Blanco made the "Declaration of Release" (Spanish: Declaración de Publicación) to the Governor of Colchagua Province, the only requisite in Chile to publish a newspaper.[1] The first edition of the newspaper was distributed by shoe-polishers and newsvendors (Spanish: canillitas) in the main streets of the city.[1]
Only eight different editions of the newspaper were published in 1944.[1] In September 1949, the ninth and last edition by Rojas was published.[1]
In 1985, Carlos Rojas transferred the publishing rights of Pichilemu to Washington Saldías, who published the tenth edition of the newspaper on January 31, 1986, forty-two years after its first edition.[1] Washington published 28 new editions, between 1986 and 1990.[1]
Saldías' project remained dormant until January 14, 2000, when he founded Pichilemu News, the first online newspaper in O'Higgins Region.[1]