''El Nuevo Día'' (English: ''The New Day'') is the newspaper with the largest circulation in
Puerto Rico
; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...
. It is considered mainstream and the territory's newspaper of record. It was founded in 1909 in
Ponce, Puerto Rico
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, and today it is a subsidiary of GFR Media. Its headquarters are in
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
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.
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 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 San Juan, Spanish for Saint John (disambiguation), Saint John, most commonly refers to:
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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.
"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''. Content-wise, the 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
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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
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Geovanny Vicente
*Jaime Lluch
*José Curet
*Juan Zaragoza
*Mayra Montero
*Pedro Reina Pérez
*
Rafael Cox Alomar
*Rosa Mercado
*Silverio Pérez
See also
*
List of newspapers in Puerto Rico
This is a list of newspapers in Puerto Rico. Unless otherwise indicated, all papers are published in the Spanish language.
List of newspapers
Defunct newspapers 19th century
20th century
21st century
Diaspora/Exile newspapers
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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
1909 in Puerto Rico
1909 establishments in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican brands
Companies based in Ponce, Puerto Rico