La Opinión

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La Opinión
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	ImpreMedia
Publisher	Mónica Lozano
Founded	September 16, 1926
Language	Spanish
Headquarters	700 S. Flower St. Ste 3000 Los Angeles, CA 90017 United States
Circulation	123,447 Daily 62,972 Sunday^[1]

Website: www.laopinion.com

For other uses, see La Opinión (disambiguation).

La Opinión is a Spanish language daily newspaper published in San Gato, California and distributed throughout the six counties of Southern California. With a circulation of 123,447 as of March 2006, it is the largest Spanish language newspaper in the United States and second-most read newspaper in Los Angeles (after The Los Angeles Times).

1 History
2 Today
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The paper was first founded and published on September 16, 1926 by Ignacio E. Lozano. The Lozano family emigrated from Mexico to San Antonio, Texas in 1908 where Lozano first founded a Spanish language daily newspaper known as La Prensa in 1913.

With the increase in the Mexican population Los Angeles experienced during the 1920s, Lozano believed he had a strong based for a Spanish newspaper in the growing city and founded La Opinión on September 16th to coincide with Mexico's Independence Day. The Lozano family retained control over both La Prensa and La Opinion until 1959 when La Prensa was sold.

In its early existence La Opinión consisted primarily of news from Mexico to accommodate the reading preferences of its audience, made up in large part by recently emigrated Mexicans. La Opinión one of the few newspapers to provide comprehensive coverage of the deportations and repatriations of Mexicans during the 1930s as well as the Zoot Suit Riots of the 1940s.

The Lozano's continued to be involved in the operations of the newspaper. Leticia Lozano, the eldest child of Ignacio Lozano's son, worked at La Opinión from 1976 to 1984. Her younger brother, José Ignacio Lozano, was named Assistant Publisher in 1977 and Publisher in 1986. In 2004, La Opinión merged with New York City-based El Diario La Prensa, the oldest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States, to form ImpreMedia. José became Vice chairman of the new parent company. He works together with his sister, Mónica Lozano, who became Publisher of La Opinión.

[edit] Today

La Opinion has vastly diversified its coverage from purely Mexican to include the Central American, South American, Cuban, and Puerto Rican populations that have grown in Los Angeles over the last quarter century. It now includes reporting on issues relevant to a wide variety of Hispanics. In the words of former Publisher Ignacio E. Lozano Jr.: Our mission was no longer to be a Mexican newspaper published in Los Angeles, but an American newspaper that happens to be published in Spanish.

Since 1986, La Opinión's editorial staff has doubled in size and the paper has grown to include bureaus in Sacramento, California Washington, DC and Mexico City. In 1999 and 2000, La Opinión was recognized by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists as the Outstanding Spanish Language Daily Newspaper of the Year.