Buenos Aires Herald

The Buenos Aires Herald is an English-language daily newspaper published in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. Its official slogan is A World of information in a few words ( Eng.: A world of information in a few words). The newspaper was founded in 1876, today has approximately 20,000 readers.

History

The newspaper was founded in 1876 by ​​Scottish immigrant William Cathcart under the name The Buenos Ayres Herald. At first it consisted of a single page with ads on the front and usually ship messages on the back. As Cathcart sold the newspaper a year later, was from the weekly newspaper a daily newspaper with a focus on typical newspaper reporting, but still with a large proportion of vessel news.

Between 1976 and 1983, during the military dictatorship, took the Buenos Aires Herald, the opinion of the opposition. This resulted in threats against the employee, the journalist Andrew Graham - Yooll went into exile. Graham Yooll wrote at the time for the UK's Daily Telegraph. 1994 Graham returned Yooll back as editor in chief for Buenos Aires Herald.

The newspaper was from 1998 to 2007 by the U.S. company Evening Post Publishing Company, Charleston (South Carolina), laid. 2008, the Argentine businessman Sergio Szpolski was the owner, he sold the newspaper but in December of the same year at Orlando Vignatti, which includes among others AMBITO Financiero and La Capital belong.