''Perfil'' is an

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weekly tabloid based in

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and refounded in 2005.

History

In 1997, the Argentine

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Editorial Perfil announced plans to launch a "super tabloid" named ''Perfil''. It was first launched by Jorge Fontevecchia on 9 May 1998 as a daily publication, but poor sales forced its closure on 31 July of the same year. ''Perfil'' was relaunched on 11 September 2005 as a weekly tabloid, published on the day of highest sales; Sundays. The expectation was that after building a reader base they would be able to add a new edition on Saturdays and finally become a daily newspaper again. It is currently published on weekends and has an online edition which is updated every day. In addition, the Sunday edition includes the women's magazine ''Luz''.

Features

Like many European newspapers it includes a section called the "Reader's Ombudsman", with the responsibility of maintaining the newspaper's reputation. Abel González was the first ombudsman in 1998. From 2005 until 15 December 2007, the journalist and neurologist Nelson Castro held that position.

Andrew Graham-Yooll Andrew Michael Graham-Yooll OBE (5 January 1944 – 5 July 2019) was an Argentine journalist, the son of a Scottish father and an English mother. He was the author of about thirty books, written in English and Spanish. ''A State of Fear'' ( E ...

, formerly the chief editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, later became the ombudsman.

Editorial line

''Perfils slogan is ''Periodismo puro'' (Spanish: "pure journalism"). Jorge Fontevecchia said that "Pure or technical

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is always critical, like American 'watchdog' journalism". Despite the implication of total objectivity, the newspaper was strongly critical of the national government of

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (; born 19 February 1953), often referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and former politician who served as the 56th president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015, and later as the 37th Vice ...

. Many of the articles, both in the printed edition and on the website, focused on critics of the Fernández de Kirchner government. Editorial Perfil is one of a number of publishing companies which do not receive any official governmental advertisements. It has claimed that the official distribution of advertising monies is "discriminatory" and a "method of persecution and exclusion" of critical media. ''Perfil'' criticizes newspapers '' Clarín'' and ''

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 ...

'' for their design changes that fail to disguise unchangeable positions.

''Buenos Aires Times''

''Perfil'' produces the English-language ''Buenos Aires Times'', online and distributed with ''Perfil'' on Saturdays. The editor-in-chief was James Grainger. The Canadian American journalist and cultural critic Sam Forster wrote for the paper throughout 2022. Until 2017, a long-established English-language newspaper, the ''

Buenos Aires Herald The ''Buenos Aires Herald'' is an English language daily online newspaper. Originally published as a daily newspaper in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1876 to 2017, its slogans were ''A World of Information in a Few Words'' and ''Unbiased press, a ...

'', had been published.

''Marie Claire''

An international edition of ''Marie Claire'' has operated in Argentina under the Argentine publishing house Perfil since March 2019.

References

External links

''Perfil''

Editorial Perfil's ''Noticias'' magazine

''Luz'' magazine
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