EL ESPECTADOR

EL ESPECTADOR

1. HISTORY

   • It was founded by Fidel Cano Gutiérrez on March, 1887 in the city of Medellín.
   • It´s the oldest newspaper currently published in the country and one of the oldest in America.
   • It owes it's name to the great admiration that it's founder had for the poet Victor Hugo, who collaborated in France in a newspaper that bore that name
   • in the beginning, the newspaper was published twice a week, years later it would become a diary and in 2001 after an economic crisis, a weekly
     • in 2008 was again a diary, in printed format

2. RELEVANT FACTS

   • On december 17,1986 the the director Guillermo Cano was murdered by order of Pablo Escobar
   • On May 29,1996 the newspaper launched it's website
   • UNESCO instituted The Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize

3. OWNER

   • Valorem S.A group

4. DIRECTOR

   • The greatgrandson of the newspaper's founder, Fidel Cano Correa

5. INFORMATION THAT THEY PRESENT

   • Monday: Sports/Tuesday:International/Wendsday:Modern Life/Friday:People,technology,commerce,cars,housing/Saturdays and Sundays:Opinion topics and interviews
     • Among its cartoonist,Betto,Bacteria,Garzón,Mico, Nieves,etc.
   • TOPIC OF THE DAY
     • They proposes a topic to it's readers everyday to contrubute to the national debate

6. POLITICAL VIEW

   • The newspaper tends to be neutral and proclaiming it's self a " Extreme Center" newspaper
   • Claims to be a synonymous of proposition and not opposition
   • As a guarantee of impartiality, they decided not support any presidential candidate

7. BROADCASTING TIME

   • Since March 22, 1887 (133 years)

8. MY OPINION

   • I believe that El Espectador is one of the few newspapers that retain a neutral essence, in wich they don't try to give more weight to one side of the scale, but instead seek to provide central information that allows readers to create their own opinion and perspective regarding both national and international issues.