| La Nación will be a tribune of doctrine. | |
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 Front page on 19 October 2015 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid on weekdays,broadsheet on weekends |
| Owners |
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| Founder | Bartolomé Mitre |
| Publisher | Fernán Saguier[1] |
| Editor-in-chief | Pablo Sirvén |
| Managing editor | Martín Rodríguez Yebra |
| Opinion editor | Fernando Laborda |
| Founded | 4 January 1870; 155 years ago (1870-01-04)[2] |
| Political alignment | Liberal conservatism[3][4] |
| Language | Spanish |
| Headquarters | Vicente López,Buenos Aires Province,Argentina[5] |
| Circulation | 35,000 (2024) |
| ISSN | 0325-0946 |
| Website | lanacion |
La Nación (transl. "The Nation") is an Argentine daily newspaper. As the country's leadingconservative newspaper,[6]La Nación's main competitor is the more liberalClarín. It is regarded as anewspaper of record for Argentina.[7]
Its motto is: "La Nación will be a tribune of doctrine." It is the second most read newspaper in print, behindClarín, and the third in digital format, behindInfobae andClarín. In addition, it has an application forAndroid andiOS phones.
The newspaper's printing plant is in theCity of Buenos Aires and its newsroom is inVicente López,Province of Buenos Aires.[5]
The newsroom also acts as a studio for the newspaper'sTV channel,LN+.[8]
The paper was founded on 4 January 1870 (replacing the former publicationNación Argentina), by former Argentine PresidentBartolomé Mitre and associates. Until 1914, the managing editor wasJosé Luis Murature, Foreign Minister of Argentina from 1914-1916. Enjoying Latin America's largest readership until the 1930s, its daily circulation averaged around 350,000, and exceeded only byCrítica, a Buenos Airestabloid.[9] The 1945 launch ofClarín created a new rival, and following the 1962 closure ofCrítica, and the 1975 suspension ofCrónica,La Nación secured its position as the chief market rival ofClarín.[10]
Originally published in Bartolomé Mitre's home (today, theMuseo Mitre), its offices were moved a number of times until, in 1929, aPlateresque headquarters onFlorida Street was inaugurated.[11] The publishing group today is headquartered in theBouchard Plaza Tower, a 26-storey Post-modern office building developed between 2000 and 2004 over the news daily's existing, six-storey building.[12]
The director ofLa Nación, Bartolomé Mitre (the founder's great-great-grandson), shares control ofADEPA, the Argentine newspaper industry trade group, and ofPapel Prensa, the nation's leadingnewsprint manufacturer, withGrupo Clarín. The newspaper was part of theconflict between Kirchnerism and the media, when Lidia Papaleo denounced, endorsed by the Kirchners, that they would have been forced to sell Papel Prensa under torture during theDirty War. JudgeJulián Ercolini acquitted him in 2016, pointing that there was no evidence to support the claim.[13]
The decline ofLa Nación has run parallel with the loss of political and economic power of the landowningupper middle class. It is still a medium for its interests, but its circulation has been cut in half and sales are decreasing at an average of 8% per year.[6]
In early 2012,La Nación bought ImpreMedia, the publisher ofEl Diario-La Prensa,La Opinión and other US-based Spanish-language newspapers. On October 30, 2016,La Nación announced a change in its printing format, with weekday editions now being printed astabloids and weekend editions retaining the traditionalbroadsheet format.[14]
In 2019, theSociety for News Design namedLa Nación as the World's Best Designed Newspaper, sharing the award together withThe Sunday Times andThe New York Times.[15]
La Nación's daily circulation averaged 165,166 in 2012, and still represented nearly 20% of the daily newspaper circulation in Buenos Aires; the paper is also distributed nationwide and around the world.[16]
According to third-partyweb analytics providersAlexa andSimilarWeb, La Nación's website is the 9th and 17th most visited in Argentina respectively, as of August 2015.[17][18] SimilarWeb rates the site as the 4th most visited news website in Argentina, attracting almost 32 million visitors per month.[18][19]
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In its origins,La Nación was born as a partisan newspaper, to sustain the action ofBartolomé Mitre, formerPresident of Argentina.[21] It was one of the most influential in the country's political life until the first half of the century.[6] Mitre had just closed the Argentine Nation and decided to replace it with this other newspaper that he conceived as a platform of doctrine. It would be destined to propagate theliberal ideology that he dreamed of for the country.[4] Self-proclaimed a "platform of doctrine" ofliberalism, he is considered the official spokesman of theoligarchy.[22]
Mitre inspired an editorial policy opposed to discrimination and openly in favor of full equality between Argentines and foreigners.[4]
In the 19th century,La Nación underwent four closures. The final closure suffered was ordered byJulio Argentino Roca, amidst the debates on the unification of the public debt.[4]
During the two world wars,La Nación's editorial stance was clearly oriented in favour of the allied cause, and critical, in both cases, of the neutrality policy of the Argentine government.Georges Clemenceau,David Lloyd George,Woodrow Wilson,Winston Churchill,Franklin D. Roosevelt, andCharles De Gaulle were constantly portrayed on the pages as heroes of the cause forfreedom.[4]
Jorge Adolfo Mitre, director of the newspaper for twenty years with aliberal profile, urged the newspaper to follow the laws of common, free and compulsory education, secularization of cemeteries and civil marriage.[4]
Hipólito Yrigoyen, twice president for theRadical Civic Union, was tried with manifest severity in his governments.La Nación found reasons to win sympathy with the government ofMarcelo Torcuato de Alvear.[4]
In 1920 the direction of the literary supplement that he had decided to include in the Sunday editions was left in the hands of Arturo Cancela, a nationalist catholic. For this, the newspaper featured articles authored byBenito Mussolini. So didLeon Trotsky, as he fled the world when the Stalinists who were chasing him.[4]
The newspaper supported the 1930 coup d'état led byJosé Félix Uriburu, though it later condemned theelectoral fraud that dominated the country between 1931 and 1943, during the so-called "Infamous Decade".[4]
According to members of the newspaper's board of directors, La Nación had two pillars since its foundation in 1870: being an expression of thenational culture and a support for theArgentine countryside.[23]
It has been the Argentine newspaper that is most involved with the development of theagriculture, the most efficient sector of the national economy.[4]
Victoria Ocampo,Adolfo Bioy Casares andErnesto Sabato found in a journal ofliberal and alsoconservative ideas, the appropriate environment to express their thoughts.[4]Mario Vargas Llosa, historic contributor, said:[24]
The role of the newspaper a Nación in Argentina has been and is very rich. Fundamental to the culture of the country, a field in which it has performed an unimaginable work.
According toJulio Maria Sanguinetti, a daily collaborator of La Nacion, “it has been a space for coexistence and a forum of ideas forconservative liberals,progressive liberals,social democrats,Christian democrats or evenopen-minded nationalists, that there is all of this in our political life, distributed in diverse parties or expression of individualities."[25]Alwaysconservative in tendency,La Nación accompanied the resistance of theruling classes to the changes that reality imposed.[6] The newspaper continues to call the two periods ofPerón's constitutional government "dictatorship" and does not use the same term to name themilitary governments installed after the successive coups d'état.[6]José Claudio Escribano, historical Deputy Director of the newspaper and member of its Editorial Board, declared that he is simultaneouslyliberal andconservative:[3]
La Nación is simultaneously aliberal and conservative newspaper... and we feel good in that place. We areconservative regarding the defense of values that are highly representative ofArgentine society. The defense offreedom, the defense of a minimumorder without which an organized society is not possible, thedefense of the republican institutions that the constituents of 1853-60 gave us. And we areliberals in the broadest sense of the word. We are notliberal economists, but as long as we are in favor of the possibility that in all areas of knowledge the reader has a plural informative offer.
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Some of the most famous writers inLatin America have appeared regularly in its columns.
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Today, it has prominent columnists and journalists.
In spite of the readership crisis in the United States, The New York Times is a newspaper of record in many countries, as is Le Monde in France or La Nación in Argentina.
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