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Mexican daily newspaper
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La Jornada (Managua)
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La Jornada
(
The Working Day
) is one of
Mexico City
's leading daily
newspapers
. It was established in 1984 by
Carlos Payan Velver
. The current editor (
directora general
) is Carmen Lira Saade.
La Jornada
has presence in eight states of the
Mexican Republic
with local editions in
Aguascalientes
,
Guerrero
,
Jalisco
,
Michoacan
,
Morelos
,
San Luis Potosi
,
Puebla
and
Veracruz
(
La Jornada de Oriente
). As of 2006 it had approximately 287,000 readers in Mexico City,
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and, according to them, their website has approximately 180,000 daily page views.
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The online version was launched in 1995, with no restrictions on access and a
Google
-based search that includes the historic archives of the newspaper. The website is hosted by the
National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM).
Contributors
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Many of the newspaper's editorialists have academic affiliations with the
UNAM
or the
Colegio de Mexico
.
It occasionally translates and includes
op-eds
from
Robert Fisk
,
Noam Chomsky
,
James Petras
,
Howard Zinn
,
Greg Palast
and others.
Fidel Castro
also repeatedly contributed to the newspaper as an author.
Reception
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Noam Chomsky
described
La Jornada
as "maybe the only real independent newspaper in the hemisphere".
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