Pichilemu (newspaper)
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Pichilemu was a Pichileminian
Pichilemu
Pichilemu , originally known as Pichilemo, is a beach resort city and commune in central Chile, and capital of Cardenal Caro Province. It is located southwest of Santiago, the capital of Chile, and comprises an urban center and twenty-three villages, such as Ciruelos, Cáhuil, and Espinillo...

 newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 published for the first time in 1944 by Carlos Rojas Pavez, municipal secretary and mayor of Pichilemu from 1967 to 1971.

Background

Augusto O. Ramírez, a newspaper editor from San Fernando
San Fernando, Chile
San Fernando is the capital of the province of Colchagua, in central Chile, and the second most populated urban center of the O'Higgins Region. Located close to the Tinguiririca River in a fertile valley, San Fernando sits 1,112 feet above sea level...

, founded the first newspaper in Pichilemu, called El Puerto, on January 16, 1908. Nine years later, on January 14, 1917, he founded El Marino, which was published in 33 different editions.

History

Carlos Rojas Pavez, who had been working as municipal secretary of Pichilemu since 1937, founded on January 31, 1944 founded the Pichilemu newspaper. Six days before, on January 25, Rojas along with José Arraño Acevedo
José Arraño Acevedo
José Santos Arraño Acevedo was a Chilean writer and historian from Pichilemu, mostly known for his books on the city's history, such as Pichilemu y Sus Alrededores Turísticos.- Life :...

 and Miguel Larravide Blanco made the "Declaration of Release" to the Governor of Colchagua Province
Colchagua Province
Colchagua Province is one of three provinces of the central Chilean region of O'Higgins . Its capital is San Fernando. It is bordered on the north by Cachapoal Province, on the east by the Argentine Republic, on the south by Curicó Province, and on the west by Cardenal Caro Province.-Geography and...

, the only requisite in Chile to publish a newspaper. The first edition of the newspaper was distributed by shoe-polishers and newsvendors in the main streets of the city.

Only eight different editions of the newspaper were published in 1944. In September 1949, the ninth and last edition by Rojas was published.

In 1985, Carlos Rojas transferred the publishing rights of Pichilemu to Washington Saldías
Washington Saldías
Washington Ramón Saldías González is a Chilean politician. Saldías is also the executive editor of Pichilemu News.Saldías was elected Councillor of Pichilemu with 870 votes from a total of 6,352 votes in Chilean municipal election of 1996.-Biography:Saldías was born in Santiago, Chile on August...

, who published the tenth edition of the newspaper on January 31, 1986, forty-two years after its first edition. Washington published 28 new editions, between 1986 and 1990.

Legacy

Saldías' project remained dormant until January 14, 2000, when he founded Pichilemu News
Pichilemu News
Pichilemu News, or PichilemuNews.cl is a Chilean online newspaper based on Pichilemu. It was founded by Washington Saldías, former Councillor of Pichilemu, on January 14, 2000 as a sequel to Periódico Pichilemu .- History :Pichilemu News was founded on January 14, 2000 by Washington Saldías, former...

, the first online newspaper
Online newspaper
An online newspaper, also known as a web newspaper, is a newspaper that exists on the World Wide Web or Internet, either separately or as an online version of a printed periodical....

 in O'Higgins Region
O'Higgins Region
The VI O'Higgins Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It is subdivided into three provinces. It is named in honour of Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, one of Chile's founding fathers....

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