The Rio Times
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Type | Online news and features services, and monthly printed newspaper |
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Editor | Matthias Camenzind |
Founded | March 2009 (15 years, 1 month) |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Circulation | 1.7 Million Monthly Single Page Views (as per January 2020) |
Website | www.riotimesonline.com |
The Rio Times is an English-language local newspaper and news and features website based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Mission and Coverage
The Rio Times is an English language publication dedicated to anyone interested in Brazil and Latin America. Beyond keeping up with national and local events, The Rio Times also covers issues of specific interest to foreign nationals in Brazil. The paper’s mission is to provide its readers with a broad spectrum of information and improve their understanding of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brazil, and Latin America.
In 2019 The Rio Times started to invest significantly more in reporting from all over Latin America. A third of all daily contributions today report on Latin America while two thirds deal with Brazil.
In January 2020, The Rio Times recorded monthly single page views of 1.7 million.
Online Newspaper
The Rio Times produced its first printed version, which was increased from 5,000 to 10,000 in December 2011. It is distributed to a range of hotels and places popular with the Anglophone expat community.
The print version was abandoned in 2017. Since then The Rio Times has been published exclusively online 24/7.
The Rio Times is read in over 50 countries. Most readers come from the following countries:
USA
Brazil
United Kingdom
Canada
India
Argentina
Germany
Australia
Norway
The newspapers readership has the following age group distribution:
55 - 64 (22.6%)
65+ (19.3%
25-34 (18.1%)
45-54 (17.8%)
35-44 (15.7%)
Editor
The paper's publisher is Swiss-born Matthias Camenzind, who bought The Rio times in March 2019 from its American founder Stone Korshak.
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