El Vocero
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Caribbean International News Corp. |
| Editor | Peter Miller |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Language | Spanish |
| Headquarters | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Official website | http://www.vocero.com |
El Vocero is a Puerto Rican newspaper that is published in San Juan.
Published since 1974, El Vocero was at first the third of the four largest Puerto Rico newspapers, trailing El Mundo and El Nuevo Día and leading The San Juan Star in sales. With the temporary demise in the late 1980s of El Mundo, El Vocero became even more popular, becoming the country's second largest newspaper. It is owned since 1985 by Caribbean International News Corp. The owners of Caribbean International News Corp, and therefore owners of El Vocero, are Elliot Stein, I. Martin Pompadur and The Henry Crown Co.
For most of its history, El Vocero was known as a sensationalist tabloid that dramatized all the violent news. However, in the early 2000s, the newspaper changed its direction, becoming a mainstream newspaper, adding a much broader coverage of entertainment as well as business related news, and carrying more political news, as in the situation in Vieques.
In addition to its regular news section, El Vocero also has business, entertainment, sports, and travel sections, among others. Until recently, it was the only Spanish-language newspaper in Puerto Rico that published a daily editorial until 'El Nuevo Día', as part of its recent makeover, started featuring a daily editorial. The English-language 'The San Juan Star' has published daily editorials since its inception, having received a Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for editorial writing.
"El Vocero" reaches every city in Puerto Rico, outselling the competition in many of them, with a paid circulation 115,000. It also has abridged New York, Miami, and Chicago editions. José M. Saldaña is a frequent op-ed contributor to the newspaper.
Gaspar Roca was responsible for most, if not all, of the successful freedom-of-information judicial cases in Puerto Rico.
On April 8, 2007, Gaspar Roca, the paper's founding publisher and editor in chief died due to a respiratory arrest. He was replaced by his son Miguel Roca. As of January 2011 Miguel Roca is no longer working at the newspaper, and has been replaced by a San Juan based construction lawyer named Peter Miller. [1]
[edit] References
- ^ Primera Hora. "Fallece fundador de El Vocero". Archived from the original on 2008-05-12. http://web.archive.org/web/20080512063909/http://www.puertadetierra.com/noticias/vocero/g_roca.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-22.|
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