![]() ![]() While El Nuevo Día has been known largely for its political reporting, El Vocero has traditionally taken a more tabloid-oriented approach, giving greater prominence to news stories on daily street crime. Content-wise, both papers have somewhat different news formats and audiences. Its main competitor in terms of sales is El Vocero. As of 2006, El Nuevo Día is the most widely read newspaper in Puerto Rico, with a daily circulation of 155,000. The newspaper's current president is María Eugenia Ferré Rangel and the current editor is Luis Alberto Ferré Rangel. "El Nuevo Día" continues to be owned and published by the Ferré family. It subsequently moved, in 1986, to its current location municipality of Guaynabo. ![]() During its first years in San Juan, El Nuevo Día's newsroom was located in the "Torre de la Reina" building, near the Luis Muñoz Rivera Park in Puerta de Tierra. The paper's first director under Antonio Luis Ferre was Carlos Castañeda. Two years after this, in 1970, Antonio Luis moved the newspaper to San Juan and renamed it "El Nuevo Día". The paper's slogan was "Y vivamos la moral, que es lo que nos hace falta" (roughly, "And let us live by the moral yardstick, which is what we lack). After Ferré was elected governor of Puerto Rico in 1968, his eldest son, Antonio Luis Ferré, purchased the paper from his father. Its board of directors consisted of Raul Matos Balaguer, Arturo Gallardo Guerrero, Miguel Sotero Palermo, Juan A. On 8 November 1945, the newspaper was acquired by Ponce native and future governor Luis A. Under his directorship the paper also started distribution in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Cintron sold the paper to Guillermo Vivas Valdivieso who formed an editorial team consisting of the three Gil De Lamadrid brothers (Jesus, Joaquin and Alfredo), Enrique Colon Barega, and Julio Enrique Monagas, and published the paper until 1945. Canales, Felix Astol, and Eugenio Deschamps. Its editorial staff consisted of Felix Matos Bernier, Juan Braschi, Nemesio R. Cintrón, with assistance from Eugenio Astol and Nemesio Canales. Sign from former headquarters of the El Día newspaper, while on Calle Salud, Ponce (1945-1970), now on display at Museo de la Historia de PonceĮl Nuevo Día was founded in 1909 in the city of Ponce as "El Diario de Puerto Rico," later changing its name to "El Día" in 1911, a name it kept for nearly seven decades. ![]()
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