''La Nación'' () is an Argentine daily newspaper. As the country's leading

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newspaper, ''La Nación''s main competitor is the more liberal '' Clarín''. It is regarded as a

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for

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. Its motto is: "''La Nación'' will be a tribune of doctrine." It is the second most read newspaper in print, behind ''Clarín'', and the third in digital format, behind '' Infobae'' and ''Clarín''. In addition, it has an application for Android and

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phones. The newspaper's printing plant is in the

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and its newsroom is in Vicente López, Province of Buenos Aires. The newsroom also acts as a studio for the newspaper's TV channel, LN+.

Overview

The paper was founded on 4 January 1870 (replacing the former publication ''Nación Argentina''), by former Argentine President

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and associates. Until 1914, the managing editor was

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, Foreign Minister of Argentina from 1914-1916. Enjoying Latin America's largest readership until the 1930s, its daily circulation averaged around 350,000, and exceeded only by ''Crítica'', a Buenos Aires

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. The 1945 launch of ''Clarín'' created a new rival, and following the 1962 closure of ''Crítica'', and the 1975 suspension of '' Crónica'', ''La Nación'' secured its position as the chief market rival of ''Clarín''. Originally published in Bartolomé Mitre's home (today, the

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), its offices were moved a number of times until, in 1929, a Plateresque headquarters on

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was inaugurated. The publishing group today is headquartered in the

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Tower, a 26-storey Post-modern office building developed between 2000 and 2004 over the news daily's existing, six-storey building. The director of ''La Nación'', Bartolomé Mitre (the founder's great-great-grandson), shares control of ADEPA, the Argentine newspaper industry trade group, and of

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, the nation's leading

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manufacturer, with Grupo Clarín. The newspaper was part of the conflict between Kirchnerism and the media, when Lidia Papaleo denounced, endorsed by the Kirchners, that they would have been forced to sell Papel Prensa under torture during the

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. Judge Julián Ercolini acquitted him in 2016, pointing that there was no evidence to support the claim. The decline of ''La Nación'' has run parallel with the loss of political and economic power of the landowning upper middle class. It is still a medium for its interests, but its circulation has been cut in half and sales are decreasing at an average of 8% per year. In early 2012, ''La Nación'' bought ImpreMedia, the publisher of ''El Diario-La Prensa'', ''La Opinión'' and other US-based Spanish-language newspapers. On October 30, 2016, ''La Nación'' announced a change in its printing format, with weekday editions now being printed as

s and weekend editions retaining the traditional

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format.

Awards

In 2019, the Society for News Design named ''La Nación'' as the World's Best Designed Newspaper, sharing the award together with '' The Sunday Times'' and '' The New York Times''.

Circulation

''La Nacións daily circulation averaged 165,166 in 2012, and still represented nearly 20% of the daily newspaper circulation in Buenos Aires; the paper is also distributed nationwide and around the world. According to third-party web analytics providers

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and SimilarWeb, La Nación's website is the 9th and 17th most visited in Argentina respectively, as of August 2015. SimilarWeb rates the site as the 4th most visited news website in Argentina, attracting almost 32 million visitors per month.

Gallery

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Editorial stance

In its origins, ''La Nación'' was born as a partisan newspaper, to sustain the action of

, former President of Argentina. It was one of the most influential in the country's political life until the first half of the century. Mitre had just closed the Argentine Nation and decided to replace it with this other newspaper that he conceived as a platform of doctrine. It would be destined to propagate the

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ideology that he dreamed of for the country. Self-proclaimed a "platform of doctrine" of liberalism, he is considered the official spokesman of the oligarchy. Mitre inspired an editorial policy opposed to discrimination and openly in favor of full equality between Argentines and foreigners. In the 19th century, ''La Nación'' underwent four closures. The final closure suffered was ordered by Julio Argentino Roca, amidst the debates on the unification of the public debt. During the two world wars, ''La Nacións editorial stance was clearly oriented in favour of the allied cause, and critical, in both cases, of the neutrality policy of the Argentine government. George Clemenceau,

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, Winston Churchill,

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, and

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were constantly portrayed on the pages as heroes of the cause for

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. Jorge Adolfo Mitre, director of the newspaper for twenty years with a

profile, urged the newspaper to follow the laws of common, free and compulsory education, secularization of cemeteries and civil marriage. Hipólito Yrigoyen, twice president for the Radical Civic Union, was tried with manifest severity in his governments. ''La Nación'' found reasons to win sympathy with the government of Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear. In 1920 the direction of the literary supplement that he had decided to include in the Sunday editions was left in the hands of Arturo Cancela, a nationalist catholic. For this, the newspaper featured articles authored by

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. So did Leon Trotsky, as he fled the world when the Stalinists who were chasing him. The newspaper supported the 1930 coup d'état led by José Félix Uriburu, though it later condemned the electoral fraud that dominated the country between 1931 and 1943, during the so-called " Infamous Decade". According to members of the newspaper's board of directors, La Nación had two pillars since its foundation in 1870: being an expression of the national culture and a support for the Argentine countryside. It has been the Argentine newspaper that is most involved with the development of the

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, the most efficient sector of the national economy.

Victoria Ocampo Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo (7 April 1890 – 27 January 1979) was an Argentine writer and intellectual. Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the literary magazine '' Sur'', she was also a writer and critic in he ...

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and

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found in a journal of

and also

ideas, the appropriate environment to express their thoughts.

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, historic contributor, said:

The role of the newspaper a Nación in Argentina has been and is very rich. Fundamental to the culture of the country, a field in which it has performed an unimaginable work.

According to

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, a daily collaborator of La Nacion, “it has been a space for coexistence and a forum of ideas for conservative liberals, progressive liberals, social democrats,

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or even open-minded nationalists, that there is all of this in our political life, distributed in diverse parties or expression of individualities." Always

in tendency, ''La Nación'' accompanied the resistance of the

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to the changes that reality imposed. The newspaper continues to call the two periods of Perón's constitutional government "dictatorship" and does not use the same term to name the military governments installed after the successive coups d'état. José Claudio Escribano, historical Deputy Director of the newspaper and member of its Editorial Board, declared that he is simultaneously

and

La Nación is simultaneously a liberal and conservative newspaper... and we feel good in that place. We are
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regarding the defense of values that are highly representative of Argentine society. The defense of
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, the defense of a minimum
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without which an organized society is not possible, the defense of the republican institutions that the constituents of 1853-60 gave us. And we are liberals in the broadest sense of the word. We are not liberal economists, but as long as we are in favor of the possibility that in all areas of knowledge the reader has a plural informative offer.

Historic contributors

Some of the most famous writers in Latin America have appeared regularly in its columns. * José Martí * Miguel de Unamuno *

Alberto Gerchunoff Alberto Gerchunoff (January 1, 1883 – March 2, 1950), was an Argentine writer born in the Russian Empire, in the city of Proskuriv, now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. Biography His family emigrated in 1889 to the Argentinian Jewish agricultural colon ...

* Eduardo Mallea *

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* Jorge Luis Borges *

Rubén Darío Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916), known as Rubén Darío ( , ), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as ''modernismo'' (modernism) that flourished at the end of ...

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* Manuel Mujica Láinez *

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Notable columnists

Today, it has prominent columnists and journalists. * Joaquín Morales Solá * Carlos Pagni *

Jorge Fernández Díaz Jorge Fernández Díaz (born 6 April 1950) is a Spanish politician and a member of the Partido Popular (PP). Early life and education Born on 6 April 1950 in Valladolid, he was the son of a military officer and Deputy Inspector-Chief of the B ...

Mariano Grondona Mariano Grondona (born 19 October 1932, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine lawyer, sociologist, political scientist, essayist and commentator. He has been a journalist for several decades, appearing in print media and on television, and has written ...

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* Juan Carlos de Pablo * Nora Bär * Facundo Manes * Diego Sehinkman *

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* Pablo Sirvén * Carlos Reymundo Roberts * Fernando Laborda * Héctor Guyot * Claudio Jacquelin * Martín Rodríguez Yebra * Ariel Torres

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nacion, La Spanish-language newspapers Daily newspapers published in Argentina Publications established in 1870 Mass media in Buenos Aires Spanish-language websites Argentine news websites