''Correio Popular'' is the largest daily

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in the city of

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, state of

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. It was founded on September 4, 1927, by Álvaro Ribeiro. The founder proposed a motto for the newspaper, which reads: "We will be diligent inspectors of public administration as well as obstinate caretakers of collective rights." Currently it has an audited circulation of 48,000 (66,000 on Sundays) and a

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of 76% of all newspaper readership in Campinas (which is the third city in the Brazilian ranking of absolute number of newspaper readers

It is one of the most modern newspapers in the country and the largest Brazilian newspaper published outside capital cities. The publication is distributed to 45 cities in the region of Campinas. Currently it has special weekly supplements on

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and

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s, and another one for children. On Sundays the paper has supplements for jobs and home and construction. ''Correio Popular'' is owned and managed by a larger communications holding company, ''

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'' (RAC), which operates a

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(AAN), a printing facility (''Grafcorp''), a polls company (''Datacorp'') and owns also several other newspapers in Campinas,

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and

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, such as '' Diário do Povo'' (the second largest newspaper in Campinas, with a 20%

), ''Gazeta do Cambuí'', ''Gazeta de Piracicaba'', ''Gazeta de Ribeirão'' and the Metrópole magazine, which circulates on Sundays with ''Correio Popular''. ''Correio Popular'', as the other RAC's newspapers are available on-line though a Web portal called ''Cosmo''.

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