El Mostrador is a
Chile
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an online newspaper, founded on 1 March 2000. Its current president is Germán Olmedo Acedvedo and its director is Federico Joannon Errázuriz.
History
''El Mostrador'' was launched on 1 March 2000 and is Chile's first exclusively digital newspaper. On 20 November 2001, part of its journalistic content was
paywall
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ed, but in 2007 it was reopened, completely free of charge.
On 25 May 2010 the newspaper launched an online television channel, «El Mostrador TV», that was transmitted for a digital television signal on channels 24, 26, 27, 28, 30 and 33 within the ring of
Américo Vespucio Avenue in Santiago.
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Organization
''El Mostrador'' is an ideologically pluralist journal
Content
The ''El Mostrador'' website is organized into the following sections:
* News: National and international news, editorials, and letters to the director, among others
* Markets: News from the economic field
* TV: Analysis, opinion, and cultural billboard in video format
* Culture+City: News from the cultural field
* Online Life: News from the technological field and the Internet
Incidents
On 19 March 2010 ''El Mostrador'' published a report that linked the newly appointed governor of Bío Bío Province, José Miguel Steigmeier, with the inner circle of Paul Schäfer, ex-leader of Villa Baviera, and with supposed participation in money laundering
Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money obtained from illicit activities (often known as dirty money) such as drug trafficking, sex work, terrorism, corruption, and embezzlement, and converting the funds i ...
. Faced with this information, Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter summoned Steigmeier to La Moneda Palace
Palacio de La Moneda (, ''Palace of the Mint''), or simply La Moneda, is the seat of the president of the Republic of Chile. It also houses the offices of three cabinet ministers: Interior, General Secretariat of the Presidency, and General S ...
that same day, deciding after the meeting to revoke his appointment to govern Bío Bío.
On 22 April 2010 Mirko Macari left the directorship of ''El Mostrador'' due to his appointment as director of the newspaper ''La Nación
''La Nación'' () is an Argentine daily newspaper. As the country's leading conservative newspaper, ''La Nación''s main competitor is the more liberal ''Clarín (Argentine newspaper), Clarín''. It is regarded as a newspaper of record for Argen ...
''. However, pressures from the Independent Democratic Union
The Independent Democratic Union (''Unión Demócrata Independiente'', UDI) is a conservative and right-wing political party in Chile, founded in 1983. Its founder was the lawyer, politician, law professor and senator Jaime Guzmán, a civilian a ...
(UDI) made the government of Sebastián Piñera
Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (; 1 December 1949 – 6 February 2024) was a Chilean businessman and politician who served as President of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022. The son of a Christian Democratic Party (C ...
reverse the decision the following day. The return of Macari to his original post at ''El Mostrador'' was made public through a press release from the electronic medium published on 23 April, under the consideration that the previous withdrawal was a voluntary act and that the journalist satisfied "fully the standards of pluralism, independence, and quality that characterize El Mostrador."
References
External links
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Editorial: Inserciones de la A.N.P. contra la S.V.S.: tergiversan la realidad
(published on 10 February 2004 by El Mostrador)
(published on 12 March 2004 by El Periodista)
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Chilean news websites
Internet properties established in 2000
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