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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Publi-Inversiones |
| President | Salvador Hasbún |
| Founded | 1974 (reestablished 2014) |
| Political alignment | Conservative |
| Language | Spanish |
| Headquarters | 1064 Ponce de León Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 |
| Website | www |
El Vocero de Puerto Rico is a Puerto Rican free newspaper that is published in San Juan. Published since 1974, El Vocero was at first the third of the four largest Puerto Rico newspapers, trailing El Mundo and El Nuevo Día and leading El Reportero and The San Juan Star in sales. With the temporary demise in the late 1980s of El Mundo, El Vocero became even more popular, becoming the island's largest newspaper by 1994.[1] From 1985 to 2013 it was owned by Caribbean International News Corp.[2] The owners of Caribbean International News Corp, and therefore owners of El Vocero, were Elliot Stein, I. Martin Pompadur and The Henry Crown Co.[3]
In the beginning, El Vocero was known as a sensationalist tabloid that dramatized all the violent news, including graphic cover photos of murders. Writers included Tomas De Jesus Mangual, Julio Víctor Ramírez Torres, José A. Purcell, Miguel Rivera Puig, Maggie Bobb and others. However, in the early 2000s, the newspaper changed its direction, becoming a mainstream newspaper, adding a much broader coverage of entertainment as well as business related news, and carrying more political news, as in the situation in Vieques.
In addition to its regular news section, El Vocero also has business, entertainment, sports, and travel sections.
On April 8, 2007, Gaspar Roca, the paper's founding publisher and editor in chief, died due to a respiratory arrest. He was replaced by his son Miguel Roca. As of January 2011,[update] Miguel Roca was no longer working at the newspaper, and was replaced by a San Juan-based construction lawyer named Peter Miller. Due to financial difficulties, in December 2013 El Vocero went bankrupt (Chapter 7). The new owner and publisher is Publi-Inversiones, formed by a group of local entrepreneurs.[4]
- ^ "Editor & Publisher 1994-08-06: Vol 127 Iss 32". Duncan McIntosh. 6 August 1994.
- ^ "Historia de EL VOCERO".
- ^ Office, U.S.G.P. (2016). Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, Volume 357, June 29, 2011 Through January 3, 2012. United States Govt Printing Office. p. 1589. ISBN 978-0-16-093036-2. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "Historia de EL VOCERO".