''El Nuevo Día'' (English: ''The New Day'') is the newspaper with the largest circulation in
Puerto Rico
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. It was founded in 1909 in
Ponce, Puerto Rico
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Ponce, Puerto Rico's most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, was founded on 12 August 1 ...
, and today it is a subsidiary of GFR Media. Its headquarters are in
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
History
El Dia
El Nuevo Día was founded in 1909 in the city of
Ponce as "El Diario de Puerto Rico," later changing its name to "El Día" in 1911, a name it kept for nearly seven decades. Its founder was Guillermo V. Cintrón,
with assistance from Eugenio Astol and
Nemesio Canales.
Its editorial staff consisted of Felix Matos Bernier, Juan Braschi, Nemesio R. Canales, Felix Astol, and Eugenio Deschamps.
In 1928 Guillermo V. Cintron sold the paper to
Guillermo Vivas Valdivieso
Guillermo Vivas Valdivieso (10 February 1881 – 31 January 1965) was a Puerto Rican attorney, journalist, politician and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 1925 to 1928.
Early years
Vivas Valdivieso was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on 10 Fe ...
who formed an editorial team consisting of the three Gil De Lamadrid brothers (Jesus, Joaquin and Alfredo), Enrique Colon Barega, and Julio Enrique Monagas, and published the paper until 1945. Under his directorship the paper also started distribution in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
On 8 November 1945, the newspaper was acquired by Ponce native and future
governor
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Luis A. Ferré. Its board of directors consisted of Raul Matos Balaguer, Arturo Gallardo Guerrero, Miguel Sotero Palermo, Juan A. Wirshing, and Luis A. Ferre. After Ferré was elected governor of Puerto Rico in 1968, his eldest son, Antonio Luis Ferré, purchased the paper from his father.
The paper's slogan was ''"Y vivamos la moral, que es lo que nos hace falta"'' (roughly, "And let us live by the moral yardstick, which is what we lack).
[Neysa Rodriguez Deynes, Ph. D., curator. Journalism Hall. Museo de la Historia de Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. March 2011.]
El Nuevo Día
Two years after this, in 1970, Antonio Luis moved the newspaper to
San Juan and renamed it "El Nuevo Día". The paper's first director under Antonio Luis Ferre was Carlos Castañeda. During its first years in San Juan, El Nuevo Día's newsroom was located in the "Torre de la Reina" building, near the
Luis Muñoz Rivera Park in
Puerta de Tierra. It subsequently moved, in 1986, to its current location municipality of
Guaynabo
Guaynabo (, ) is a city, suburb of San Juan and municipality in the northern part of Puerto Rico, located in the northern coast of the island, north of Aguas Buenas, south of Cataño, east of Bayamón, and west of San Juan. Guaynabo is spr ...
.
"El Nuevo Día" continues to be owned and published by the Ferré family. The newspaper's current president is María Eugenia Ferré Rangel and the current editor is Luis Alberto Ferré Rangel. As of 2006, El Nuevo Día is the most widely read newspaper in Puerto Rico, with a daily circulation of 155,000.
Its main competitor in terms of sales is ''
El Vocero
''El Vocero de Puerto Rico'' is a Puerto Rican free newspaper that is published in San Juan. Published since 1974, ''El Vocero'' was at first the third of the four largest Puerto Rico newspapers, trailing '' El Mundo'' and '' El Nuevo Día'' and ...
''. Content-wise, both papers have somewhat different news formats and audiences. While ''El Nuevo Día'' has been known largely for its political reporting, ''El Vocero'' has traditionally taken a more tabloid-oriented approach, giving greater prominence to news stories on daily street crime. More recently, however, "El Vocero" has begun to put greater emphasis to political and business news, making it a more direct competitor to "El Nuevo Día."
In addition to its political and community sections, ''El Nuevo Día'' also has
sports
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, entertainment and business sections. Its previous
television commercial campaign slogan read: ''El Nuevo Día: Un Gran Periodico'' ("El Nuevo Día: A Great Newspaper"). The campaign slogan recently changed to "El Nuevo Día: Conocer es Crecer" ("El Nuevo Día: To Know is to Grow").
From 2003 to 2008, El Nuevo Día had an
Orlando
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edition called ''El Nuevo Día Orlando''. It started publication on 2 September 2003 and was published on weekdays. On 13 November 2009, the newspaper began to circulate free of charge. The paper printed 25,000 copies daily. A study showed that 96% percent of people who read the Orlando edition read it at home. The Orlando edition ceased publication on 29 August 2008.
Columnists
*Benjamín Torres Gotay
*Eduardo Lalo
*Fernando Cabanillas
*
Geovanny Vicente
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*Jaime Lluch
*José Curet
*Juan Zaragoza
*Mayra Montero
*Pedro Reina Pérez
*
Rafael Cox Alomar
Rafael Cox Alomar (born December 30, 1974) is a Puerto Rican lawyer, professor of law, author and 2012 candidate for Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.
Early life
Cox Alomar was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 30 December 1974 to Noemí A ...
*Rosa Mercado
*Silverio Pérez
See also
*
List of newspapers in Puerto Rico
Notes
References
External links
El Nuevo Día's website
El Nuevo Día's online archive (subscription-only service)
El Nuevo Día's corporate site
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Spanish-language newspapers published in Puerto Rico
Newspapers from Ponce, Puerto Rico
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1909 establishments in Puerto Rico
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