Everything about La Jornada totally explained
La Jornada is one of
Mexico City's leading daily
newspapers. It was established in
1984 by
Carlos Payán Velver. The current editor
(directora general) is
Carmen Lira Saade.
La Jornada has presence in seven states of the Mexican Republic with local editions in
Guerrero,
Jalisco,
Michoacán,
Morelos,
San Luis Potosí,
Puebla and
Veracruz (La Jornada de Oriente). It has approximately 287,000 readers in Mexico City and according to
alexa.com it ranks, along with El Universal, as one of the most visited newspaper on the web in Mexico..
La Jornada caters to center-left stances in Mexico City, criticizing the
PAN and
PRI administrations, including their economic policies. Its editorials are also sympathetic toward the
Zapatista (EZLN) movement and the center-left
Democratic Revolutionary Party and have supported the recently legalized
same-sex civil unions in Mexico City and the
legalization of abortion.
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.
Contributors
Many of the newspaper's editorialists have academic affiliations with the
UNAM or the
Colegio de México.
It occasionally translates and includes
op-eds from
Robert Fisk,
Noam Chomsky,
James Petras,
Howard Zinn,
Greg Palast and others.
Criticism
Since its conception, the newspaper has been accused of censorship, being ideologically driven, biased, having an unfair process to choose the newspapers director among other things by people like
Sergio Aguayo,
Luis González de Alba,
Pablo Gómez and
José Paoli Bolio
Trivia
La Jornada documented for the first time the origin of the feud between Colombia's
Gabriel García Márquez and the Peruvian writer
Mario Vargas Llosa.
Further Information
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