El Nuevo Herald
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El Nuevo Herald is a McClatchy
The McClatchy Company
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 newspaper
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 published daily in Spanish
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 in Miami, Florida
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, in the United States
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. El Nuevo Heralds sister paper is The Miami Herald
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, also produced by the McClatchy Company.

About El Nuevo Herald

Founded: First published in 1975 as El Miami Herald; expanded and relaunched in 1987 as El Nuevo Herald; available as a standalone newspaper in 1998.

Key Executives:

David Landsberg, President and Publisher, Miami Herald Media Co.

Manny Garcia, Executive Editor

Gloria Leal, Associate Editor

Andres Reynaldo, City Editor

Distinction: Award-winning, Spanish-language daily newspaper in the nation's third-largest Hispanic market.

Circulation Area: Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties.

Market: The South Florida market is the primary market in the state of Florida with nearly 4.3 million residents and ranks as the 15th largest in the United States. It is the third-largest Hispanic market in the nation.

Strength:

For daily newspapers, El Nuevo Herald is the United States' biggest Spanish-language Sunday paper and the second-largest daily. El Nuevo Herald carries an extraordinary sphere of influence in Latin America and the Caribbean for its groundbreaking news.

Customers: Hispanic readers in South Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America; web visitors from around the world.




Major Awards:



2002

Ortega y Gasset Journalism Award for best Spanish-language newspaper in the world

Premio Rey de España -- Journalism Award



2004

Maria Moors Cabot Prize

- Outstanding reporting on Latin America

Premio Society for News Design

- Photography



2005

GLADD National Awards

- Outstanding newspaper article



National Association of Hispanic Publications

- Best Hispanic Daily, 1990-99 and 2004-06

- Various Categories Awarded, 1990-2007

Government-paid journalists

On September 8, 2006, the publisher of the Miami Herald Jesús Díaz Jr., fired three El Nuevo Herald journalists because they freelanced for Radio/TV Marti
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, a U.S. Government News Agency
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. The three were Pablo Alfonso, Wilfredo Cancio Isla and Olga Connor. Less than a month later, Díaz was instructed by his superiors at The McClatchy Company
The McClatchy Company
The McClatchy Company is a publicly traded American publishing company based in Sacramento, California. It operates 30 daily newspapers in 15 states and has an average weekday circulation of 2.2 million and Sunday circulation of 2.8 million...

, the parent company of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, to re-hire the three journalist in question because they had prior approval to freelance for Radio/TV Marti from their supervisor at the time, El Nuevo Herald executive editor Humberto Castelló. Díaz resigned after reinstating the fired journalists.

See also

  • Kent, Robert B. and Maura E. Huntz. "Spanish-Language Newspapers in the United States". Geographical Review, Vol. 86, No. 3, Latin American Geography. (1996), pp. 446–456.


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