La Jornada

Infobox Newspaper
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type = Daily newspaper
format = Tabloid
foundation = 1984
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publisher = Desarrollo de Medios SA de CV
editor = Carmen Lira Saade
language = Spanish
circulation = National
headquarters = Mexico City, Mexico
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website = [http://www.jornada.unam.mx www.jornada.unam.mx]

"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 [ [http://www.pulso.org/Espanol/Nuevos/transparencia%20prensa020809.html Pulso: Articulos Nuevos ] ] and according to alexa.com it ranks, along with El Universal, as one of the most visited newspaper on the web in Mexico. [ [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=www.jornada.unam.mx&site1=milenio.com&site2=reforma.com.mx&site3=eluniversal.com.mx&site4=&y=r&z=1&h=300&w=500&range=6m&size=Medium&url=http://www.jornada.unam.mx unam.mx - Traffic Details from Alexa ] ] .

"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.

*Julio Hernández López
*Jose Steinsleger
*Eduardo Galeano (Former Contributor)
*Miguel Angel Rivera
*Carlos Fernández-Vega
*Alfredo Jalife Rahme
*Julio Boltvinik Kalinka
*Marlene Santos
*Patricia Peñaloza
*Mario Di Costanzo
*Gustavo Iruegas
*Iván Restrepo
*Arnoldo Kraus
*Enrique Galvan Ochoa
*Carlos Fazio
*Gustavo Esteva
*León Bendesky
*Elena Poniatowska
*Hermann Bellinghausen
*José Cueli
*Leonardo Garcia Tsao
*Mario Benedetti
*Carlos Monsivais
*John Saxe Fernandez

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 strong ideologically driven (communist), 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 [ [http://www.lainsignia.org/2003/mayo/soc_032.htm Revista de prensa: México: Sí, crisis en La Jornada ] ]

ee also

*"Reforma"
*" El Universal"

External links

*es icon [http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ Official website]

References