Buenos Aires Herald
The Buenos Aires Herald was an English-language daily newspaper that appeared in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires . The newspaper was founded in 1876 and by 2010 had around 20,000 readers.
In 2008 the newspaper was taken over by the publishing house of the business newspaper "Ambito Financiero". After a changeover to only weekly publication around mid-2016, the closure was announced on July 31, 2017 via Twitter.
history
The daily newspaper was founded in 1876 by the Scottish immigrant William Cathcart under the name The Buenos Ayres Herald . At first it consisted of a single page with advertisements on the front and mostly ship announcements on the back. When Cathcart sold the newspaper a year later, the weekly newspaper became a daily newspaper with a focus on typical newspaper coverage, but still with a large proportion of ship reports. Their official motto was A World of Information in a Few Words .
Between 1976 and 1983, at the time of the military dictatorship , the Buenos Aires Herald took a human rights stance with which the newspaper stood in opposition to government policy. This resulted in threats against the employees, the personally hostile news editor Andrew Graham-Yooll went into exile. Graham-Yooll was also writing for the British Daily Telegraph at the time . In 1994 he returned to the Buenos Aires Herald as editor-in-chief, subsequently took on various management functions and finally retired in 2007. The last editor-in-chief was Sebastián Lacunza from 2013 to 2017.
The website BuenosAiresHerald.com was created parallel to the printed edition of the newspaper with its own editorial team, which belonged to the digital division of the Ámbito media group. She also took over individual articles from the print edition, which, however, worked separately from an organizational and editorial point of view.
owner
The daily newspaper was published from 1998 to 2007 by the US company Evening Post Publishing Company , Charleston (South Carolina). In 2008 the Argentine businessman Sergio Szpolski was the owner, but he sold the newspaper to Orlando Vignatti in December of the same year, who also owns Ámbito Financiero and La Capital . In February 2015, the Indalo media group of the major entrepreneur Cristóbal López von Vignatti, who is closely associated with the presidential family Kirchner , acquired the majority stake in the media group AmFin SA, to which the Herald belongs.
Controversy
In January 2015, the Argentine-Israeli political reporter Damián Pachter , who worked for the Herald's online portal, was the first to use his Twitter account to spread the news of the unexpected death of the public prosecutor Alberto Nisman , who subsequently became President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in political Distress brought. Pachter, who saw his life threatened, then fled Argentina and temporarily moved to Israel .
Web links
- Homepage of the Buenos Aires Herald (dead link)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief entry on EuropaWorld.com - accessed on April 30, 2010
- ^ "Buenos Aires Herald" closes after 141 years orf.at, August 1, 2017, accessed August 1, 2017.
- ↑ PressReference.com - accessed April 30, 2010
- ↑ A brief history of the Herald, on the Herald website, accessed on March 24, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Sebastián Lacunza: Damián Pachter and the Herald's dignity, in: BuenosAiresHerald.com from January 28, 2015, accessed on March 24, 2015 (English)
- ^ Adrián Bono: In Defense of the Buenos Aires Herald, in: The Bubble from February 1, 2015, accessed on March 24, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Buenos Aires Herald falls in the hands of a group close to Cristina Fernandez, in: Merco Press from February 19, 2015, accessed on March 24, 2015 (English)
- ^ Charles A. Landsmann: "Argentina has become a dark place", in: Tagesspiegel of January 27, 2015, accessed on March 24, 2015