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Ovidio Lagos Ovidio Lagos (31 August 1825 – 13 August 1891) was an Argentine journalist, businessman and politician. Lagos was born in Buenos Aires in a country torn apart by internal strife. Federalists, who supported the view of Argentina as a confedera ...

Eudoro Carrasco , foundation = 15 November 1867 , owners = Grupo América , publisher = Orlando Vignatti , editor = Editorial Diario LA CAPITAL S.A. , circulation = 40,000 , headquarters =

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous city in the country, and is also the most p ...

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''La Capital'' is a daily

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edited and published in

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of Santa Fe,

. It was founded on November 15, 1867, and it is the oldest Argentine newspaper still in circulation, which has gained it the title of ''Decano de la Prensa Argentina'' ("Dean of the Argentine Press"). The name was chosen by its founder,

, as a political statement on the part of those, including him, who were lobbying to move the capital of the

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to Rosario. Rosario was in fact declared the capital three times by Congress, only to face presidential vetoes each time. At the time of its foundation, ''La Capital'' was an afternoon newspaper. Newspapers were just forums of political debate with classified ads. Since the beginning, the heading of ''La Capital'' included a

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showing a commitment to public opinion: ''Las columnas de La Capital pertenecen al pueblo'', "La Capital's columns belong to the people". On 19 August 1868 the editorial building was at 104 Santa Fe St. After that, ''La Capital'' turned into a morning newspaper, and in 1870 it moved to Port St. (now Buenos Aires St.). In 1874 and again in 1887 new printing machinery was acquired. In 1889 the editorial moved to a new building at 763 Sarmiento St. and acquired a

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''Marinoni'' reaction printer. In 1903 the newspaper changed the format of its pages, abandoning the large sheet sizes. By 1905 the daily edition had 16 pages, and in 1906 it offered a full-color 28-page illustrated supplement. For 111 years, since its foundation, the newspaper employed the " hot type" method, that is, with Linotype typesetting machines where molten

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and

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were used to cast each line of text. In 1978 ''La Capital'' shifted to "

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", using the

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method. In mid-1998 the new publishing plant at Santiago St. near Rivadavia Ave. received its latest

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, a ''Goss Urbanite'' rotating press which weighs 165

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s and measures almost 36 m in length. The new plant also features a number of other technologies. Using this, ''La Capital'' started a new edition, with a different layout and format, and fully in color. Besides national and international news, the newspaper covers local news from Rosario and its

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(

Greater Rosario Greater Rosario is the metropolitan area of the city of Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. This metropolis has a population of about 1.3 million (1,276,000 million inhabitants) thus being Argentina's third most populated urban ...

), plus other towns in the region and four other provinces besides Santa Fe, reaching about 2 million readers.

References

* Online edition
''La Capital ::: on line''
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(in Spanish).

External links

Official SiteBerita Judol
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