El Nuevo Herald
| El Nuevo Herald | |
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| description | Spanish-language daily newspaper |
| publishing company | The McClatchy Company |
| First edition | 1976 |
| Frequency of publication | Monday to Sunday |
| Sold edition | Mon-Sat 58,573, so. 75,990 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Myriam Marquez |
| editor | David Landsberg Jr. |
| Web link | elnuevoherald.com |
El Nuevo Herald is a Spanish language daily newspaper in the United States published in Miami , Florida . It is the sister paper of the English language The Miami Herald . Both belong to the media group The McClatchy Company . El Nuevo Herald is the second largest Spanish-language daily newspaper in the USA after La Opinión from Los Angeles , but is also read in the countries of Latin America and has a strong influence on political discussions there due to its often exclusive reporting.
history
In 1975 the Miami Herald first began publishing a page in Spanish every day. In 1976, a 16-page supplement was created under the name El Herald . This supplement contained almost exclusively translations of the English-language articles from the Miami Herald. During this time El Herald could only be bought together with the English version, which prevented the paper from developing independently. Above all, the left-liberal editorial of the Miami Herald, and thus also the Spanish-language translation in the supplement, repeatedly met with massive resistance in the Cuban exile community of South Florida. Particularly anti-communist Cubans in exile even accused the newspaper of having a Castro- friendly line.
In 1987, the newspaper was expanded by a few pages under Robert Suárez de Cardenas and now added to the mother paper as El Nuevo Herald . The editorial line was changed slightly to the right in order to meet the expectations of the Cubans in exile. Nevertheless, she was violently attacked in 1992 by the chairman of the influential Cuban American National Foundation , Jorge Mas Canosa , and called anti-Cuban. Under the slogan “ Yo no creo en el Herald ” (German: “I don't believe the Herald”) he started a campaign against the newspaper, which then lost numerous readers in the Miami area. During this time, the newspaper's stalls were also destroyed by vandals. Yet El Nuevo Herald remained the most widely read Spanish language newspaper in the United States.
In 1994 the Cuban-born editor of the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día , Carlos M. Castañeda, was offered the post of editor- in- chief at the Nuevo Herald . This refused, however, with the remark that the editorial team of the Nuevo Herald was like the Communist Party of Bulgaria (“ Miren, este periódico es como el Partido Comunista de Bulgaria ”). In 1995 the previous editor-in-chief Álvaro Vargas Llosa left the newspaper because of an internal dispute, and the Puerto Rican Alberto Ibargüen was appointed as his successor. This introduced a new style with which the newspaper opened up to the boulevard . Sensational journalism was now partly carried out in flowery language , which was in stark contrast to the previous stiff seriousness of the paper.
In 1998 the separate sale of the El Nuevo Herald was started for the first time . Alberto Ibargüen moved to the editor-in-chief of the English-language Miami Herald and this time Carlos M. Castañeda accepted to become editor-in-chief of the now independent Spanish-language sister paper. He started the new paper with the headline « ¡Bochorno! »(German:“ Shame, embarrassment ”), with which he criticized the treatment of balseros , the Cubans who fled to Florida on rafts, by the US coast guard . Castañeda began to give the newspaper a new direction. El Nuevo Herald was to develop from a local newspaper for the Cuban exile community in Florida into a leading daily newspaper for all of Latin America and the Caribbean . In July 1998, the newspaper attracted international attention when it published an alleged testimony by doctor Elizabeth Trujillo Izquierdo, who had fled Cuba, claiming that Fidel Castro had a serious illness that also affected his brain, which later turned out to be a duck . In the wake of the highly polarizing Elian affair , the newspaper campaigned heavily in 1999 and 2000 for the six-year-old to remain in the USA, while the sister paper, the Miami Herald, reported more neutrally and accepted the decision of the courts.
Castañeda died in 2002 and the new editor-in-chief was Humberto Castelló, also a native Cuban who had previously worked as a journalist for El Nuevo Día in Puerto Rico and for the daily newspaper Uno in Argentina . In the same year, the newspaper also received the prestigious Ortega y Gasset Prize for Journalism awarded by the Spanish daily El País as the award for the best Spanish-language newspaper of the year.
In 2006, the newspaper was embroiled in a scandal when it became known that some of its editors were also working as paid freelancers for Radio and TV Martí , a US government broadcaster that, similar to Radio Free Europe, broadcasts from Miami to Cuba and is boycotted by the local government as a propaganda broadcaster. This affair damaged the newspaper's reputation as an independent paper.
In 2007, the newspaper's Colombia correspondent Gonzalo Guillén received anonymous threats after conducting critical research into President Álvaro Uribe . He then left the country.
Meaning today
El Nuevo Herald is the second largest Spanish-language daily newspaper in the USA with a circulation of 58,573 copies on working days, while the Sunday edition even comes first with 75,990 copies. The newspaper, printed in broadsheet format , has around 80 pages a day. About 70% of buyers are subscribers. However, the online edition of the newspaper reaches a large proportion of the readership outside of the United States. El Nuevo Herald is particularly influential in the Spanish-speaking countries of Central America and the Caribbean and is often quoted by the media there, especially in Cuba, Colombia and Venezuela . In contrast, the current highest circulation Spanish-language newspaper in the US, La Opinión in Los Angeles, abroad, especially in Mexico rezipiert .
Well-known authors of El Nuevo Herald are the columnist and foreign policy expert Andrés Oppenheimer, the Colombian investigative journalist Gerardo Reyes, the sports journalist Jorge Ebro, but also such bizarre personalities as the Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado, who creates the horoscopes.
The attitude of government-loyal Cuban media towards El Nuevo Herald fluctuates between neutral reference and severe criticism. For example, Cuba has accused the newspaper of its stance on the Miami Five or its critical position on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez . When the newspaper, referring to Forbes Magazine, claimed in May 2006 that Fidel Castro had a private fortune of 900 million US dollars , the latter called the Nuevo Herald literally: “ El Nuevo Herald, the libelous newspaper of the terrorist mafia in Miami ” (German: "The defamatory newspaper of the terrorist mafia in Miami").
In 2010, El Nuevo Herald was the only Spanish-language newspaper among the Pulitzer Prize finalists for its coverage of the Haiti earthquake .
Individual evidence
- ↑ About El Nuevo Herald ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Miami Herald website, accessed January 3, 2012
- ↑ Roberto Suarez, founder of El Nuevo Herald, has died . In: South Florida Sun-Sentinel , July 7, 2010
- ↑ El Nuevo Herald Provides a Latin American Take On the News . ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Nieman Reports, June 22, 2001
- ↑ “He transformed the newspaper”, said Ibargüen. "The idea was that El Nuevo should become a Latin American newspaper that happens to be edited in this North American country." on Fundación Educativa Carlos M. Castañeda: Carlos M. Castañeda as seen by other journalists
- ^ Defector: Castro had brain disease . latinamericanstudies.org, July 19, 1998
- ↑ Nombran a Humberto Castelló director de El Nuevo Herald . latinamericanstudies.org, December 6, 2001
- ^ US 'paid anti-Cuba journalists' . BBC Americas, September 6, 2006
- ↑ Klaus Ehringfeld: The tantrums of the President . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 15, 2007.
- ↑ 'El Nuevo Herald' makes a fuss about nothing . ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Granma , June 22, 2001
- ↑ Leader of anti-Chavez march arrested on fraud charges . ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Granma , February 4, 2003
- ↑ President Fidel Castro ride rates his demand to Forbes magazine . ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Granma , May 25, 2006
- ↑ Myriam Márquez es la nueva directora de el Nuevo Herald, in: El Nuevo Herald of October 24, 2013, accessed on June 2, 2014 (Spanish)
