Buenos Aires Herald to close after more than 140 years of publication
Source: Reuters
The English-language newspaper in Latin America announced closure less than a year after switching from daily to weekly print edition
Reuters in Buenos Aires
Tuesday 1 August 2017 12.19 EDT
The Buenos Aires Herald, a storied English-language newspaper lauded for its coverage of Argentinas 1976-1983 military dictatorship, will close after more than 140 years of publication, the newspaper has announced.
Heralds staff have been informed that the newspaper is closing, the paper said in a Twitter message on Monday night, along with a photo of the front page of its 140th anniversary edition from last September.
The move comes less than a year after the paper, which once called itself the only English-language daily in Latin America, switched to a weekly print edition, blaming tough economic conditions and a broad shift among readers to digital media.
The Buenos Aires Herald, closely associated with Argentinas British and, in later years, US community, won praise for its coverage of the disappeared people who were forcibly abducted, tortured and murdered by the state during the dictatorship when much of the countrys media stayed silent.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/01/buenos-aires-herald-to-close-after-140-years-argentina
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)sandensea
(21,639 posts)The paper had already been reduced to a weekly format in November. A sad milestone indeed - especially for its former editor, Robert Cox (one of a very few newspaper editors to dare cover the issue of the disappeared in the 1976-79 period).
Thank you for posting these news, Judi.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)It was a good newspaper.