Oldest Latino Newspaper, Celebrates 100th Anniversary
By Huffington Post Latino Voices
The oldest Spanish-language newspaper in the country turns 100 this year.
New York’s El Diario/La Prensa will celebrate its centenary with a series of events over the course of this year aimed at highlighting the paper’s role in the city.
“During these years, we’ve been the voice of New York Latinos, especially during the times when we didn’t have a voice,” the paper’s publisher and CEO Rossana Rosado told Spanish newswire EFE.
Founded as a weekly under the title La Prensa in 1913 in lower Manhattan, the paper merged with El Diario de New York decades later, leaving it with a compound name, according to The New York Daily News. Today, El Diario/La Prensa’s offices are in Brooklyn.
The paper’s audience has evolved with the times, serving a New York Latino population that has seen distinct waves of Puerto Rican, Dominican, South American and Mexican immigrants.
This article was first published in Huffington Post Latino Voices.
[Photo courtesy El Diario/La Prensa]