El Sureño

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El Sureño
TypeDaily newspaper
Founded14 June 1991
LanguageSpanish
Websitehttps://www.surenio.com.ar/

El Sureño is an Argentine daily newspaper printed in the Tierra Del Fuego Province. It was founded in 1991 and is owned by Fagon SRL.[1]

Its headquarters are located in 9 de Julio 431, Río Grande. The current director is Oscar A. González.[2]

It is the sales leader media in the province.[3] It was declared of municipal interest in 2017 by the City council of Rio Grande.[1]

Reach[edit]

The newspaper is distributed in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, primarily in the cities of Rio Grande and Ushuaia.

Content[edit]

El Sureño publishes content organized into the following sections:

  • Society
  • Politics
  • Crime
  • Sports

In the years 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2012, 2014 and 2015, it published features on the anniversary of the Tierra del Fuego Province creation.[3]

Censorship[edit]

In 2012, Fernando Medina, a reporter for El Sureño, resigned after denouncing internal censorship by the newspaper. He had made a report on expense irregularities in the Rio Grande city founds, in which informed a three times overprice in a sports event organized by the city government.[4]

In 2012, Diego Salazar, a journalist, was intimidated by members of the Truckers Union after taking photos of riots that followed a rally of then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.[5][6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Decree # 150/2017" (PDF). Río Grande City Council (in Spanish). 25 September 2017.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Carrea, Ernesto. "FAGON SRL". El Sureño (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  3. ^ a b Arevalo, Johanna Ingrid (2017). Periodismo e imaginarios : la provincialización de Tierra del Fuego en El Sureño (PDF) (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Buenos Aires University School of Social Sciences. ISBN 978-987-42-6644-6. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  4. ^ "Periodista del diario El Sureño renunció tras denunciar censura interna" [El Sureño journalist resigned claiming internal censorship]. www.fopea.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  5. ^ "Crónica de casos reportados durante 2007" [Summary of reported cases in 2017]. www.fopea.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  6. ^ Bocchicchio, Silvio (18 September 2007). "Heridos y detenidos en un acto de Cristina Kirchner en Tierra del Fuego" [Injureds and arrests in a Cristina Kirchner rally in Tierra del Fuego]. La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2020.

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