Grupo Reforma
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Grupo Reforma is media company that controls a newswire service, and a number of Mexican daily newspapers including El Norte in Monterrey, Reforma in Mexico City, Mural in Guadalajara, and Palabra in Saltillo .
The newsgroup is the most widely read newsource in Mexico. Reforma has 276,000 readers, and El Norte has 119,000 readers, totaling nearly 400,000 readers nationwide. [1] The readership for Mural and Palabra is not known.
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[edit] History
The newsgroup started with the influential daily from Monterrey, El Norte, in 1938 [2]. The company attempted to build a newswire service, called Infosel, which would additionally give detailed business information to subscribers. Infosel later diversified and also started offering Internet dial-up service, and had a web-based news portal.
El Norte started publishing in Mexico City in 1993 under the name "Reforma", named after the Mexico City avenue Paseo de la Reforma. In 1997, the paper started publishing in Saltillo under the name "Palabra" (Spanish for "word"), and in 1998, it entered Guadalajara with the name "Mural".
The four newspapers, and Infosel, where all consolidated into a company called Grupo Infosel.
In 1999, Terra Networks, a Spanish telecommunications company, bought Infosel's interests in Internet dial-up and business news. The four newspapers and the newswire service where consolidated into a new company called "Grupo Reforma".
[edit] Criticism
Grupo Reforma was created by Alejandro Junco and Rodolfo Junco Jr. from the fusion of two companies, Editora el Sol S.A. and Ediciones del Norte S.A, both founded by Rodolfo Junco de la Vega, Alejandro's and Rodolfo's father. Alejandro and Rodolfo allegedly stole the initial companies' shares from their father, who was later exiled to the United States. Then, with controlling stake on the their father's companies, the two brothers gave birth to Grupo Reforma, Mexico's most powerful newspaper organisation.
These statements were made by Rodolfo Junco de la Vega, who now resides in San Antonio, Texas, causing severe crticism against the company's newspapers.
The Mexico City Newspaper Reforma has been accused of having a right-wing bias, despite its independent editorial style. It has been labeled as "right-wing" in references by The Guardian, Clarin, San Antonio Express-News, UM school of communication, and the The Princeton Progressive Nation. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Former candidate, Andres Manuel López Obrador has also accused the paper of this bias, and even denounced the paper of being a "press bulletin for the PAN". [12]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.pulso.org/Espanol/Nuevos/transparencia%20prensa020809.html
- ^ http://www.azapedia.com/articulo-id-4549-Alejandro+Junco+de+la+Vega.html
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldnewsguide/latinamerica/page/0,,623011,00.html
- ^ http://www.puntog.com.mx/guias/periodicos.htm
- ^ http://www.mysanantonio.com/specials/weblogs/mexico/archives/2006/06/dane_schiller_c_3.html
- ^ http://com.miami.edu/ecommunique/hmexicoed08142006.html
- ^ http://www.clarin.com/diario/2000/03/05/i-03302d.htm
- ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2006/09/06/Worldandnation/Winner_declared_in_Me.shtml
- ^ http://www.princetonprog.com/
- ^ http://alt1040.com/archivo/2005/12/29/el-rediseno-del-periodico-reforma/
- ^ http://www.isopixel.net/archivos/2003/09/contenidos-de-pago/
- ^ http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051130/news_1n30mexico1.html
[edit] External links
1. Report on the founder's statements (Spanish)
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