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El Espectador

El Espectador (meaning "The Spectator") is a newspaper with national circulation within Colombia, founded by Fidel Cano Gutiérrez on 22 March 1887 in Medellín and published since 1915 in Bogotá. It changed from a daily to a weekly edition in 2001, following a financial crisis, and became a daily again on 11 May 2008,[2][3] a comeback which had been long rumoured,[4][5] in tabloid format (28 x 39.5 cm). From 1997 to 2011 its main shareholder was Julio Mario Santo Domingo.[6]

El Espectador
El Espectador front page, 18 September 2008 issue
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatTabloid
PublisherFidel Cano Correa
Editor-in-chiefÉlber Gutiérrez Roa
EditorJorge Cardona
Political alignmentCentre-left,
Liberalism,
Social liberalism
LanguageSpanish
HeadquartersCalle 103 69B-43
Bogotá, Colombia
Circulation50,000 (Mon–Sat)[1]
190,000 (Sun)[1]
ISSN0122-2856
OCLC number436626557
Websiteelespectador.com

It is the oldest newspaper in Colombia. Since its first issue its motto has been "El Espectador will work for the good of the country with liberal criteria and for the good of the liberal principles with patriotic criteria". It was initially published twice a week, 500 issues each. It defined itself as a "political, literary, news and industrial newspaper". Years later it became a daily and in 2001 became a weekly. Since then, the paper uses the slogan "El Espectador. Opinion is news", implying it now focuses in opinion articles, not in breaking news. This focus was kept when it regained its daily format on 11 May 2008.[7]

According to the latest Estudio General de Medios (EGM – Segunda Ola 2007 (II-2007)), El Espectador has 687,900 readers every week.[8] It is a member of the Inter American Press Association and the Asociación de Diarios Colombianos (ANDIARIOS).

History edit

 
The front page of the first issue of El Espectador, 22 March 1887.

Since its foundation in 1887, El Espectador acted as a speaker for the Colombian Liberal Party, at the time opposed to the administrations of the conservative Regeneration. It was closed by the authorities several times:[9]

  • 8 July 1887, by the Rafael Núñez administration, 134 days after its first issue, until 10 January 1888.
  • 27 October 1888, by the then designated Carlos Holguín Sardi, until 12 February 1891; previously, the Catholic Church had forbidden its followers to read the newspaper, because of criticism of the lavishness of the Catholic Church in public celebrations made by its director.[10]
  • On 26 September 1892 the government fined the newspaper with $200.000 after considering one of its articles "subversive".
  • 8 August 1893, by Antioquia governor Abraham García, until 14 March 1896. Fidel Cano Gutiérrez was jailed.
  • On 27 June 1896, until 27 April 1897, due to a press law recently passed by the Congress.
  • The outbreak of the Thousand Days War made El Espectador suspend its activities between 19 October 1899 and 16 October 1903
  • On 17 December 1904 it was suspended again, after facing difficulties and opposing the Rafael Reyes administration. It appeared again on 2 January 1913, as an evening daily in Medellín.
 
A Washington printing press where the first issue of El Espectador was printed in 1887, Museo Universitario, University of Antioquia, History Collection at San Ignacio Building, Medellín, Colombia

Since 10 February 1915 El Espectador has been simultaneously published in Medellín and Bogotá. Its Medellín edition was suspended on 20 July 1923.

In 1948, after the murder of Liberal Party leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, its circulation was suspended for three days. Since then, El Espectador has had to deal with the censorship of the then ruling Conservative Party several times. On 9 November 1949, Luis Cano Villegas, its director, resigned in protest for the seizure of the entire edition by the government, being replaced by his brother Gabriel Cano Villegas. On 6 September 1952, its facilities, then located in downtown Bogotá, as well as the building of competitor El Tiempo and the houses of Liberal Party leaders Eduardo Santos and Carlos Lleras Restrepo, were looted and partially destroyed, apparently with the tacit consent of the government. It reappeared on 16 September.

In 1955 the newspaper, outspokenly opposed to the military government of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, publishing several articles by Alberto Lleras Camargo, with a substantial effect on public opinion. In December, the government accused El Espectador of several accounting and tax irregularities, and fined the newspaper $10,000 on 20 December 1955. On 6 January 1956 the National Taxes Direction imposed on El Espectador a fine of $600,000. Its directors, who were forbidden to respond to the accusations against the paper, suspended its publication that day.

 
A blackout at El Espectador facilities

In order to replace El Espectador, on 20 February 1956 appeared El Independiente, directed by Alberto Lleras Camargo, who retired in April when the newspaper was closed for several months. It was published again in 1957 but due to an agreement by the opposition newspapers, it suspended its publication on 5 May. Five days later, Rojas Pinilla was ousted. El Independiente circulated until 31 May 1958. The next day, Jun 1, it was formally replaced by El Espectador.

In 1964 its headquarters moved from downtown to western Bogotá, on the avenida 68, the area becoming known as Avenida El Espectador. At the inauguration, its then director Gabriel Cano Villegas said: "if El Tiempo has the best corner in Bogotá, El Espectador has the best corner in the country."[11]

Throughout the 20th century El Espectador was the main Liberal newspaper, with El Tiempo, both holding an important political influence. Among its main contributors it had some of the most important Colombian journalists at the time, like Luis Eduardo Nieto Caballero, Alberto Lleras Camargo, Eduardo Zalamea Borda, Gabriel García Márquez, Eduardo Caballero Calderón, Klim, Antonio Panesso Robledo, Inés de Montaña, Alfonso Castillo Gómez, José Salgar, as well as cartoonists Hernán Merino, Pepón, Consuelo Lago, and Osuna.

In 2007, its publisher Fidel Cano Correa said he did not agree with former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez's personal behaviour and government style, but he specified that was his own position and not the newspaper's.[12]

Journalism of ideas edit

During the 20th century El Espectador criticized other mass media in Colombia, which preferred to remain silent instead of denouncing the atrocities happening in the country.[13] In the early 1980s, the daily published several articles denouncing illegal loans and other irregularities allegedly performed by the Grupo Grancolombiano, one of the most powerful financial groups at the time. As retaliation, several big companies pulled their ads from the paper, which was already facing some financial issues. El Espectador disputed accusations made against it and dedicated an editorial piece to its credibility and the credibility of the financial groups.[14]

El Espectador also demanded in its editorials freedom of the press and denounced the political censorship the independent media outlets had to deal with to avoid being closed,[15] stating that "not even in the worst times of press censorship or political retaliation, some resorted to crime in order to silence the press, in one of its more noble and higher democratic functions." It recognized that in Colombia "the death penalty ordered and executed from the lowest social holes has become an habit, as a revenge against the work of social sanity the press is committed to." It concluded saying that "the feeling of siege and danger —on the press— would be negatively reflected on the whole democratic system."[citation needed]

The newspaper rejected being considered as "subversive opposition" and criticized Liberal president Julio César Turbay Ayala's government, which by its words wished to "have a totally loyal, extremely pro-government press, not silenced but flattering." To defend itself, the paper published 15 July 1979 a column named Si eso es opposición... ("If that's opposition...")[16] In the same text, the newspaper declared itself "neutral", considering that a democracy should not be polarized,[16] "because in the times we are living, newspapers are increasingly more independent from governments, more devoted entirely to report and guide according to their honest knowledge and understanding," adding that the "unanimous, one-way, uniformed, official press is (intended) for dictatorships and not for democracies... and we believe that Colombia is still a democracy."

El Espectador also criticized, openly, drug trafficking:

What this country really needs is not money, metal, pure materialism, but a deep resurgence of morals in both public and private sectors. Drug trafficking has corrupted us, the buying and selling of influence has corrupted us, the rush for easy money has corrupted us.
Guillermo Cano Isaza. Libreta de Apuntes. 12 January 1986[10]

Our mafiosos find that the no-extradition (to United States) is their best life insurance, because they know that if they commit any serious or slight offences in Colombian territory, the generous cheque book or the sinister machine-gun, or the paid hit man, or the unscrupulous bodyguard willing to kill at the first chance, will keep them free enjoying their dirty, perverse fortune
Guillermo Cano. Libreta de Apuntes. August 1986[10]

Guillermo Cano's murder edit

As stated before, El Espectador stood firm against drug trafficking and often published articles on related crimes.

On 17 December 1986, the then director of El Espectador, Guillermo Cano Isaza, was assassinated in front of the newspaper offices by gunmen paid by Pablo Escobar, after publishing several articles critical of Colombia's drug barons. Cano left the headquarters around 19:00 in his family's Subaru Leone After he made a U-turn on the Avenida El Espectador, one of the hitmen approached the wagon Cano was driving, shot him in the chest four times with an Uzi, and then fled on a motorcycle identified with the licence plate FAX84. Cano was 61 years old, and had been a journalist for 44 years. His murder is still considered unpunished.[17][18][19][20] On December 18, 1986,and September 3, 1989 El Espectador's main headline was Seguimos adelante ("We are going on").[11]

The World Press Freedom Prize, awarded annually by UNESCO since 1997, is named in his honour, for "his courage, his compromise with independent journalism and the tenacity with which he fought for his country", which "are an example for the rest of the world to follow. Guillermo Cano's fate exemplifies the price paid by journalists the world over in exercising their profession; journalists are imprisoned and ill-treated every day and the fact that these crimes, for the most part, go unpunished is even more alarming."[21]

On 2 September 1989 the paper's offices were bombed by the Medellín Cartel. The blast occurred around 06:30; it blew the building's roof up, destroyed the main entry and affected the newspaper's production. The bomb was hidden in a van parked minutes before it exploded in front of the main entry. The same day, 6 armed men broke into an exclusive island in Islas del Rosario, near Cartagena de Indias, and set fire to the Cano family's summer house.

Defence of the freedom of the press edit

On 29 May 2000 Reporters Without Borders issued a letter of protest to Interior Minister Humberto de La Calle Lombana, on the kidnapping of journalist Jineth Bedoya,[22] at the time working for El Espectador, allegedly carried out by members of the paramilitary United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC). Robert Ménard, RWB's secretary general, "stated that he was "scandalised" by this latest attack on Bedoya".[23] She would later join El Tiempo.

On 23 August 1999, a group called Colombian Rebel Army (ERC) published a communiqué issuing death threats against 21 personalities engaged in the then ongoing peace process, accusing them of "promoting war between Colombians". Among those personalities two El Espectador contributors were mentioned, Alfredo Molano y Arturo Alape.[22] On 19 January 1999, Molano left the country (he would return years later). Molano had condemned the massacre of 130 people perpetrated weeks before by members of AUC commanded by Carlos Castaño, who had referred to Molano as "paraguerrilla".[22] On 18 September, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, who had worked for El Espectador and RCN Radio, went into exile.[22]

Between February and May 2000, journalist Ignacio Gómez received at least 56 threatening letters. In an article published by El Espectador, Gómez had revealed that the Mapiripán Massacre, in which 49 peasants were killed by paramilitary militias, had been supported by members of the Colombian Army. After escaping a kidnapping attempt in Bogotá on 24 May, Gómez sought refuge in the United States on 1 June 2000. He would return to Colombia one year later[24] and become part of Noticias Uno TV newscast.

On 21 March 2003 columnist Fernando Garavito left Colombia for the United States, after several death threats. He denounced human rights violations by AUC, as well as the alleged tolerance on drug barons in the past by the then presidential candidate Álvaro Uribe Vélez.[25] On 8 February 2003 photojournalist Herminso Ruiz was beaten and had his camera confiscated by members of the Colombian National Police while he was covering El Nogal club bombing.[26][27] The incident was contempt by organizations as RWB.[26][28]

In May 2003 the newspaper, through an editorial written by its then director Ricardo Santamaría, reported on "interference" on an investigation it was carrying on the alleged irregularities in Banco del Pacífico, claiming that Police intelligence officials had obtained access to a draft of the report and sent it, through the Colombian National Police director, Teodoro Campo, to the then Interior Minister Fernando Londoño, who was a chairman of the bank.[29] Organizations defending freedom of the press expressed their contempt and their "deep concern". Campo denied any involvement, while minister Londoño claimed the draft was sent anonymously to him.[29][30]

On 18 November 2004, a Bogotá court sentenced columnist and film director Lisandro Duque to three days in jail and a 470 euros fine, for not publishing a rectification after a sentence for defamation, when in column published 13 April 2003 Duque criticized Claudia Triana de Vargas, manager of a film production company. Instead of rectifying, Duque wrote in a piece published 7 September that he had "no enough evidence" to support his criticism. Duque appealed the court sentence.[27]

El Espectador in the 21st century edit

Presence on the web edit

 
Elespectador.com logo since March 2008

On 29 May 1996 the then daily newspaper launched its website elespectador.com.[31] Its design format and layout have been changed several times[32][33][34][35][36] In 2006 later added the .com to its logo, comments to the articles and user registration.[37] Access hits to Elespectador.com grew 79% in 2007.[8]

On 7 March 2008 elespectador.com was revamped, setting up four "editions": online, latest news, news map and print version. It also improved the registration system and the RSS feeds, and added tags, audio, and videos taken from Noticias Caracol, newscast from sister network Caracol TV, uploaded to its YouTube channel. The website is built with Drupal. Elespectador.com received the Colombian Chamber of Computing and Telecommunications's Premio Colombia en Línea 2008 award to the best online news website in the country.[38][39]

In April 2016,[40] the journalist Maria Paulina Baena and the journal's opinion coordinator Juan Carlos Rincón released La Pulla, a political and opinion journalism YouTube channel.[41]

From daily to weekly edit

Despite El Espectador had been the Colombian newspaper with the second highest circulation, after El Tiempo, the financial difficulties worsened and in 1997 the Cano family sold most of their shares in Comunican S.A., El Espectador publishing company, to Julio Mario Santo Domingo, who at the time owned Cromos, Caracol Radio (later sold to Spanish group PRISA) and Caracol TV. Its headquarters moved to the Avenida El Dorado. In September 2001 El Espectador became a weekly newspaper.

RWB stated that "media diversity suffered a heavy blow" when the newspaper "downgraded itself to a weekly."[42]

The Cali newspaper El País said:[43] "El Espectador is a standard in defence of freedom, the fight against drug trafficking and corruption."

Since then, their editors Rodrigo Pardo, Carlos Lleras de la Fuente, Ricardo Santamaría, and Fidel Cano Correa tried to recover the financial balance and the newspaper's circulation. As a weekly, it was published on Saturdays, with Sunday's date. Counting with the free time readers have available on weekends, El Espectador focused on opinion, investigation, and analysis pieces, recovering its circulation, influence, and earnings.

In 2007 Fidel Cano Correa stated in an interview with Revista Semana that[12] "[the return to a daily edition] is just a possibility. We have been doing very well during the last three years, especially the last one." The Spanish group PRISA was considered as a strategic partner, but the negotiation failed when Santo Domingo refused to cede the control of the paper to PRISA.[44] On 11 May 2008 El Espectador became a daily again, changing from broadsheet to tabloid format.[2]

Daily focus, supplements, and alliances edit

Every day of the week, except Sunday, El Espectador devotes around 10 pages to a specific "focus":

  • Monday: Negocios (Business)
  • Tuesday: Deportes (Sports)
  • Wednesday: Internacional (World news)
  • Thursday: Vivir (Living)
  • Friday: Cultura (Culture)
  • Saturday: Gente (People)

It also publishes three magazines, published once in a month each: Autos/Motos, Espacios, and Discovery Health. On Mondays El Espectador publishes a 6-page edition of The New York Times International Weekly,[45][46] and on Tuesdays a two-paged Fox Sports minisection. It also syndicates articles from Harvard Business Review and El País.

Design edit

Since 2004, Lucie Lacava's Lacava Design has been in charge of El Espectador's design for its print edition.[47] El Espectador uses Hoefler & Frere-Jones's Mercury and Gotham typefaces since then.[48]

Current management and employees edit

 
El Espectador nameplate used throughout the 20th century, until 2000.
 
El Espectador nameplate used between 2000 and late 2002.

President edit

  • Gonzalo Córdoba Mallarino

Publisher edit

Editorial board edit

Editors edit

  • Jorge Cardona, editor-in-chief
  • Fernando Araújo, Arts and People.
  • Olga Lucía Barona, Sports.
  • Angélica Lagos, International.
  • Leonardo Rodríguez, elespectador.com
  • Norbey Quevedo, Investigations.
  • Juan David Laverde, Crime and Law
  • Hugo García Segura, Politics
  • Edwin Bohórquez, Business
  • Alex Marín, Bogotá

Regular columnists edit

Sunday edit
Monday edit
  • María Elvira Bonilla
  • Luis Carvajal Basto
  • Roberto J. Camacho
  • Álvaro Forero Tascón
  • Germán González
  • Salomón Kalmanovitz
  • Lorenzo Madrigal
  • Santiago Montenegro
  • Mario Morales
  • Mauricio Rodríguez
  • Santiago Rojas
Tuesday edit
Wednesday edit
  • Danilo Arbilla
  • es:Fernando Carrillo Flórez
  • Pascual Gaviria
  • Hernán González Rodríguez
  • Andrés Hoyos
  • José Fernando Isaza
  • Patricia Lara Salive
  • Cecilia Orozco Tascón
  • Hernando Roa Suárez
  • Juan Pablo Ruiz Soto
  • Arlene B. Tickner
Thursday edit
Friday edit
  • Ricardo Arias Trujillo
  • Ana María Cano Posada
  • Hugo Chaparro Valderrama
  • Juan David Correa Ulloa
  • Jorge Iván Cuervo R.
  • Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín
  • Esteban Carlos Mejía
  • Mario Morales
  • Lucas Ospina
  • Mario Fernando Prado
  • Yesid Reyes Alvarado
  • Augusto Trujillo Muñoz
  • Juan Gabriel Vásquez
  • Carlos Villalba Bustillo
  • Juan Villoro
Saturday edit
  • Rocío Arias Hofman
  • Juan Carlos Botero
  • Diana Castro Benetti
  • Manuel Drezner
  • Mauricio García V.
  • Julio César Londoño
  • Adolfo Meisel Roca
  • Sergio Otálora Montenegro
  • Gustavo Páez Escobar
  • Julián Posada
  • Lola Salcedo Castañeda

Blog writers edit

  • Tim Buendía
  • Julián Andres Rivera Sulez
  • Nicolas Acosta
  • Julia Londoño
  • Juan Herrera
  • Gonzalo gGuerrero
  • Joseph Aldemar Casañas Angulo

Syndicated columnists edit

Former Publishers edit

  • Ricardo Santamaría (2003)
  • Carlos Lleras de la Fuente (1999–2002)
  • Rodrigo Pardo (1998–1999)
  • Juan Guillermo Cano and Fernando Cano (1986–1997)
  • Guillermo Cano Isaza (1952–1986)
  • Gabriel Cano (1919 - 1923: Medellín edition; 1949 - 1958 Bogotá edition)
  • Luis Cano (1919–1949)
  • Fidel Cano Gutiérrez (1887–1919)

See also edit

References edit

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External links edit

  • (in Spanish) El Espectador web page
    • (in Spanish) Latest news
    • (in Spanish) Print edition
    • (in Spanish) News map
    • (in Spanish) Videos

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For the Uruguayan media company see CX 14 El Espectador El Espectador meaning The Spectator is a newspaper with national circulation within Colombia founded by Fidel Cano Gutierrez on 22 March 1887 in Medellin and published since 1915 in Bogota It changed from a daily to a weekly edition in 2001 following a financial crisis and became a daily again on 11 May 2008 2 3 a comeback which had been long rumoured 4 5 in tabloid format 28 x 39 5 cm From 1997 to 2011 its main shareholder was Julio Mario Santo Domingo 6 El EspectadorEl Espectador front page 18 September 2008 issueTypeDaily newspaperFormatTabloidPublisherFidel Cano CorreaEditor in chiefElber Gutierrez RoaEditorJorge CardonaPolitical alignmentCentre left Liberalism Social liberalismLanguageSpanishHeadquartersCalle 103 69B 43Bogota ColombiaCirculation50 000 Mon Sat 1 190 000 Sun 1 ISSN0122 2856OCLC number436626557Websiteelespectador wbr comIt is the oldest newspaper in Colombia Since its first issue its motto has been El Espectador will work for the good of the country with liberal criteria and for the good of the liberal principles with patriotic criteria It was initially published twice a week 500 issues each It defined itself as a political literary news and industrial newspaper Years later it became a daily and in 2001 became a weekly Since then the paper uses the slogan El Espectador Opinion is news implying it now focuses in opinion articles not in breaking news This focus was kept when it regained its daily format on 11 May 2008 7 According to the latest Estudio General de Medios EGM Segunda Ola 2007 II 2007 El Espectador has 687 900 readers every week 8 It is a member of the Inter American Press Association and the Asociacion de Diarios Colombianos ANDIARIOS Contents 1 History 2 Journalism of ideas 3 Guillermo Cano s murder 4 Defence of the freedom of the press 5 El Espectador in the 21st century 5 1 Presence on the web 5 2 From daily to weekly 5 3 Daily focus supplements and alliances 5 4 Design 5 5 Current management and employees 5 5 1 President 5 5 2 Publisher 5 5 3 Editorial board 5 5 4 Editors 5 5 5 Regular columnists 5 5 5 1 Sunday 5 5 5 2 Monday 5 5 5 3 Tuesday 5 5 5 4 Wednesday 5 5 5 5 Thursday 5 5 5 6 Friday 5 5 5 7 Saturday 5 5 6 Blog writers 5 5 7 Syndicated columnists 6 Former Publishers 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksHistory edit nbsp The front page of the first issue of El Espectador 22 March 1887 Since its foundation in 1887 El Espectador acted as a speaker for the Colombian Liberal Party at the time opposed to the administrations of the conservative Regeneration It was closed by the authorities several times 9 8 July 1887 by the Rafael Nunez administration 134 days after its first issue until 10 January 1888 27 October 1888 by the then designated Carlos Holguin Sardi until 12 February 1891 previously the Catholic Church had forbidden its followers to read the newspaper because of criticism of the lavishness of the Catholic Church in public celebrations made by its director 10 On 26 September 1892 the government fined the newspaper with 200 000 after considering one of its articles subversive 8 August 1893 by Antioquia governor Abraham Garcia until 14 March 1896 Fidel Cano Gutierrez was jailed On 27 June 1896 until 27 April 1897 due to a press law recently passed by the Congress The outbreak of the Thousand Days War made El Espectador suspend its activities between 19 October 1899 and 16 October 1903 On 17 December 1904 it was suspended again after facing difficulties and opposing the Rafael Reyes administration It appeared again on 2 January 1913 as an evening daily in Medellin nbsp A Washington printing press where the first issue of El Espectador was printed in 1887 Museo Universitario University of Antioquia History Collection at San Ignacio Building Medellin ColombiaSince 10 February 1915 El Espectador has been simultaneously published in Medellin and Bogota Its Medellin edition was suspended on 20 July 1923 In 1948 after the murder of Liberal Party leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan its circulation was suspended for three days Since then El Espectador has had to deal with the censorship of the then ruling Conservative Party several times On 9 November 1949 Luis Cano Villegas its director resigned in protest for the seizure of the entire edition by the government being replaced by his brother Gabriel Cano Villegas On 6 September 1952 its facilities then located in downtown Bogota as well as the building of competitor El Tiempo and the houses of Liberal Party leaders Eduardo Santos and Carlos Lleras Restrepo were looted and partially destroyed apparently with the tacit consent of the government It reappeared on 16 September In 1955 the newspaper outspokenly opposed to the military government of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla publishing several articles by Alberto Lleras Camargo with a substantial effect on public opinion In December the government accused El Espectador of several accounting and tax irregularities and fined the newspaper 10 000 on 20 December 1955 On 6 January 1956 the National Taxes Direction imposed on El Espectador a fine of 600 000 Its directors who were forbidden to respond to the accusations against the paper suspended its publication that day nbsp A blackout at El Espectador facilitiesIn order to replace El Espectador on 20 February 1956 appeared El Independiente directed by Alberto Lleras Camargo who retired in April when the newspaper was closed for several months It was published again in 1957 but due to an agreement by the opposition newspapers it suspended its publication on 5 May Five days later Rojas Pinilla was ousted El Independiente circulated until 31 May 1958 The next day Jun 1 it was formally replaced by El Espectador In 1964 its headquarters moved from downtown to western Bogota on the avenida 68 the area becoming known as Avenida El Espectador At the inauguration its then director Gabriel Cano Villegas said ifEl Tiempohas the best corner in Bogota El Espectadorhas the best corner in the country 11 Throughout the 20th century El Espectador was the main Liberal newspaper with El Tiempo both holding an important political influence Among its main contributors it had some of the most important Colombian journalists at the time like Luis Eduardo Nieto Caballero Alberto Lleras Camargo Eduardo Zalamea Borda Gabriel Garcia Marquez Eduardo Caballero Calderon Klim Antonio Panesso Robledo Ines de Montana Alfonso Castillo Gomez Jose Salgar as well as cartoonists Hernan Merino Pepon Consuelo Lago and Osuna In 2007 its publisher Fidel Cano Correa said he did not agree with former President Alvaro Uribe Velez s personal behaviour and government style but he specified that was his own position and not the newspaper s 12 Journalism of ideas editDuring the 20th century El Espectador criticized other mass media in Colombia which preferred to remain silent instead of denouncing the atrocities happening in the country 13 In the early 1980s the daily published several articles denouncing illegal loans and other irregularities allegedly performed by the Grupo Grancolombiano one of the most powerful financial groups at the time As retaliation several big companies pulled their ads from the paper which was already facing some financial issues El Espectador disputed accusations made against it and dedicated an editorial piece to its credibility and the credibility of the financial groups 14 El Espectador also demanded in its editorials freedom of the press and denounced the political censorship the independent media outlets had to deal with to avoid being closed 15 stating that not even in the worst times of press censorship or political retaliation some resorted to crime in order to silence the press in one of its more noble and higher democratic functions It recognized that in Colombia the death penalty ordered and executed from the lowest social holes has become an habit as a revenge against the work of social sanity the press is committed to It concluded saying that the feeling of siege and danger on the press would be negatively reflected on the whole democratic system citation needed The newspaper rejected being considered as subversive opposition and criticized Liberal president Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala s government which by its words wished to have a totally loyal extremely pro government press not silenced but flattering To defend itself the paper published 15 July 1979 a column named Si eso es opposicion If that s opposition 16 In the same text the newspaper declared itself neutral considering that a democracy should not be polarized 16 because in the times we are living newspapers are increasingly more independent from governments more devoted entirely to report and guide according to their honest knowledge and understanding adding that the unanimous one way uniformed official press is intended for dictatorships and not for democracies and we believe that Colombia is still a democracy El Espectador also criticized openly drug trafficking What this country really needs is not money metal pure materialism but a deep resurgence of morals in both public and private sectors Drug trafficking has corrupted us the buying and selling of influence has corrupted us the rush for easy money has corrupted us Guillermo Cano Isaza Libreta de Apuntes 12 January 1986 10 Our mafiosos find that the no extradition to United States is their best life insurance because they know that if they commit any serious or slight offences in Colombian territory the generous cheque book or the sinister machine gun or the paid hit man or the unscrupulous bodyguard willing to kill at the first chance will keep them free enjoying their dirty perverse fortuneGuillermo Cano Libreta de Apuntes August 1986 10 Guillermo Cano s murder editSee also UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize and World Press Freedom Day Main article Guillermo Cano Isaza As stated before El Espectador stood firm against drug trafficking and often published articles on related crimes On 17 December 1986 the then director of El Espectador Guillermo Cano Isaza was assassinated in front of the newspaper offices by gunmen paid by Pablo Escobar after publishing several articles critical of Colombia s drug barons Cano left the headquarters around 19 00 in his family s Subaru Leone After he made a U turn on the Avenida El Espectador one of the hitmen approached the wagon Cano was driving shot him in the chest four times with an Uzi and then fled on a motorcycle identified with the licence plate FAX84 Cano was 61 years old and had been a journalist for 44 years His murder is still considered unpunished 17 18 19 20 On December 18 1986 and September 3 1989 El Espectador s main headline was Seguimos adelante We are going on 11 The World Press Freedom Prize awarded annually by UNESCO since 1997 is named in his honour for his courage his compromise with independent journalism and the tenacity with which he fought for his country which are an example for the rest of the world to follow Guillermo Cano s fate exemplifies the price paid by journalists the world over in exercising their profession journalists are imprisoned and ill treated every day and the fact that these crimes for the most part go unpunished is even more alarming 21 On 2 September 1989 the paper s offices were bombed by the Medellin Cartel The blast occurred around 06 30 it blew the building s roof up destroyed the main entry and affected the newspaper s production The bomb was hidden in a van parked minutes before it exploded in front of the main entry The same day 6 armed men broke into an exclusive island in Islas del Rosario near Cartagena de Indias and set fire to the Cano family s summer house Defence of the freedom of the press editOn 29 May 2000 Reporters Without Borders issued a letter of protest to Interior Minister Humberto de La Calle Lombana on the kidnapping of journalist Jineth Bedoya 22 at the time working for El Espectador allegedly carried out by members of the paramilitary United Self Defence Forces of Colombia AUC Robert Menard RWB s secretary general stated that he was scandalised by this latest attack on Bedoya 23 She would later join El Tiempo On 23 August 1999 a group called Colombian Rebel Army ERC published a communique issuing death threats against 21 personalities engaged in the then ongoing peace process accusing them of promoting war between Colombians Among those personalities two El Espectador contributors were mentioned Alfredo Molano y Arturo Alape 22 On 19 January 1999 Molano left the country he would return years later Molano had condemned the massacre of 130 people perpetrated weeks before by members of AUC commanded by Carlos Castano who had referred to Molano as paraguerrilla 22 On 18 September Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza who had worked for El Espectador and RCN Radio went into exile 22 Between February and May 2000 journalist Ignacio Gomez received at least 56 threatening letters In an article published by El Espectador Gomez had revealed that the Mapiripan Massacre in which 49 peasants were killed by paramilitary militias had been supported by members of the Colombian Army After escaping a kidnapping attempt in Bogota on 24 May Gomez sought refuge in the United States on 1 June 2000 He would return to Colombia one year later 24 and become part of Noticias Uno TV newscast On 21 March 2003 columnist Fernando Garavito left Colombia for the United States after several death threats He denounced human rights violations by AUC as well as the alleged tolerance on drug barons in the past by the then presidential candidate Alvaro Uribe Velez 25 On 8 February 2003 photojournalist Herminso Ruiz was beaten and had his camera confiscated by members of the Colombian National Police while he was covering El Nogal club bombing 26 27 The incident was contempt by organizations as RWB 26 28 In May 2003 the newspaper through an editorial written by its then director Ricardo Santamaria reported on interference on an investigation it was carrying on the alleged irregularities in Banco del Pacifico claiming that Police intelligence officials had obtained access to a draft of the report and sent it through the Colombian National Police director Teodoro Campo to the then Interior Minister Fernando Londono who was a chairman of the bank 29 Organizations defending freedom of the press expressed their contempt and their deep concern Campo denied any involvement while minister Londono claimed the draft was sent anonymously to him 29 30 On 18 November 2004 a Bogota court sentenced columnist and film director Lisandro Duque to three days in jail and a 470 euros fine for not publishing a rectification after a sentence for defamation when in column published 13 April 2003 Duque criticized Claudia Triana de Vargas manager of a film production company Instead of rectifying Duque wrote in a piece published 7 September that he had no enough evidence to support his criticism Duque appealed the court sentence 27 El Espectador in the 21st century editPresence on the web edit nbsp Elespectador com logo since March 2008On 29 May 1996 the then daily newspaper launched its website elespectador com 31 Its design format and layout have been changed several times 32 33 34 35 36 In 2006 later added the com to its logo comments to the articles and user registration 37 Access hits to Elespectador com grew 79 in 2007 8 On 7 March 2008 elespectador com was revamped setting up four editions online latest news news map and print version It also improved the registration system and the RSS feeds and added tags audio and videos taken from Noticias Caracol newscast from sister network Caracol TV uploaded to its YouTube channel The website is built with Drupal Elespectador com received the Colombian Chamber of Computing and Telecommunications s Premio Colombia en Linea 2008 award to the best online news website in the country 38 39 In April 2016 40 the journalist Maria Paulina Baena and the journal s opinion coordinator Juan Carlos Rincon released La Pulla a political and opinion journalism YouTube channel 41 From daily to weekly edit Despite El Espectador had been the Colombian newspaper with the second highest circulation after El Tiempo the financial difficulties worsened and in 1997 the Cano family sold most of their shares in Comunican S A El Espectador publishing company to Julio Mario Santo Domingo who at the time owned Cromos Caracol Radio later sold to Spanish group PRISA and Caracol TV Its headquarters moved to the Avenida El Dorado In September 2001 El Espectador became a weekly newspaper RWB stated that media diversity suffered a heavy blow when the newspaper downgraded itself to a weekly 42 The Cali newspaper El Pais said 43 El Espectadoris a standard in defence of freedom the fight against drug trafficking and corruption Since then their editors Rodrigo Pardo Carlos Lleras de la Fuente Ricardo Santamaria and Fidel Cano Correa tried to recover the financial balance and the newspaper s circulation As a weekly it was published on Saturdays with Sunday s date Counting with the free time readers have available on weekends El Espectador focused on opinion investigation and analysis pieces recovering its circulation influence and earnings In 2007 Fidel Cano Correa stated in an interview with Revista Semana that 12 the return to a daily edition is just a possibility We have been doing very well during the last three years especially the last one The Spanish group PRISA was considered as a strategic partner but the negotiation failed when Santo Domingo refused to cede the control of the paper to PRISA 44 On 11 May 2008 El Espectador became a daily again changing from broadsheet to tabloid format 2 Daily focus supplements and alliances edit Every day of the week except Sunday El Espectador devotes around 10 pages to a specific focus Monday Negocios Business Tuesday Deportes Sports Wednesday Internacional World news Thursday Vivir Living Friday Cultura Culture Saturday Gente People It also publishes three magazines published once in a month each Autos Motos Espacios and Discovery Health On Mondays El Espectador publishes a 6 page edition of The New York Times International Weekly 45 46 and on Tuesdays a two paged Fox Sports minisection It also syndicates articles from Harvard Business Review and El Pais Design edit Since 2004 Lucie Lacava s Lacava Design has been in charge of El Espectador s design for its print edition 47 El Espectador uses Hoefler amp Frere Jones s Mercury and Gotham typefaces since then 48 Current management and employees edit This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items August 2008 nbsp El Espectador nameplate used throughout the 20th century until 2000 nbsp El Espectador nameplate used between 2000 and late 2002 President edit Gonzalo Cordoba MallarinoPublisher edit Fidel Cano Correa 2004 present Editorial board edit Hector Abad Faciolince Ramiro Bejarano Alejandro Gaviria Armando Montenegro Pilar ReyesEditors edit Jorge Cardona editor in chief Fernando Araujo Arts and People Olga Lucia Barona Sports Angelica Lagos International Leonardo Rodriguez elespectador com Norbey Quevedo Investigations Juan David Laverde Crime and Law Hugo Garcia Segura Politics Edwin Bohorquez Business Alex Marin BogotaRegular columnists edit Sunday edit Hector Abad Faciolince Fernando Araujo Velez Ramiro Bejarano Guzman Mauricio Botero Caicedo Piedad Bonnet Maria Elvira Samper Juan Esteban Constain Humberto de la Calle Cristina de la Torre Lisandro Duque Naranjo Alejandro Gaviria Ivan Mejia Alvarez Alfredo Molano Bravo Armando Montenegro Luis Fernando Montoya William Ospina Hernan Pelaez Restrepo Hugo Sabogal Eduardo Sarmiento Harry Sason Maria Antonieta Solorzano Tola y Maruja Maria Emma Wills Felipe Zuleta Lleras Monday edit Maria Elvira Bonilla Luis Carvajal Basto Roberto J Camacho Alvaro Forero Tascon German Gonzalez Salomon Kalmanovitz Lorenzo Madrigal Santiago Montenegro Mario Morales Mauricio Rodriguez Santiago Rojas Tuesday edit Eduardo Barajas Sandoval Antonio Casale Tulio Eli Chinchilla Marcela Lleras Andres Marocco Ivan Mejia Alvarez Aura Lucia Mera Daniel Pacheco Hernan Pelaez Restrepo Cesar Rodriguez Garavito Reinaldo Spitaletta Rodrigo Uprimny Wednesday edit Danilo Arbilla es Fernando Carrillo Florez Pascual Gaviria Hernan Gonzalez Rodriguez Andres Hoyos Jose Fernando Isaza Patricia Lara Salive Cecilia Orozco Tascon Hernando Roa Suarez Juan Pablo Ruiz Soto Arlene B TicknerThursday edit Rodolfo Arango Luis Eduardo Garzon Gustavo Gomez Cordoba Maria Teresa Herran Ana Milena Munoz de Gaviria Rafael Orduz Angela Maria Orozco Uriel Ortiz Soto Elisabeth Ungar Bleier Klaus ZieglerFriday edit Ricardo Arias Trujillo Ana Maria Cano Posada Hugo Chaparro Valderrama Juan David Correa Ulloa Jorge Ivan Cuervo R Francisco Gutierrez Sanin Esteban Carlos Mejia Mario Morales Lucas Ospina Mario Fernando Prado Yesid Reyes Alvarado Augusto Trujillo Munoz Juan Gabriel Vasquez Carlos Villalba Bustillo Juan Villoro Saturday edit Rocio Arias Hofman Juan Carlos Botero Diana Castro Benetti Manuel Drezner Mauricio Garcia V Julio Cesar Londono Adolfo Meisel Roca Sergio Otalora Montenegro Gustavo Paez Escobar Julian Posada Lola Salcedo Castaneda Blog writers edit Tim Buendia Julian Andres Rivera Sulez Nicolas Acosta Julia Londono Juan Herrera Gonzalo gGuerrero Joseph Aldemar Casanas AnguloSyndicated columnists edit Paulo Coelho Umberto Eco Christopher Hitchens Nicholas D Kristof Tomas Eloy MartinezFormer Publishers editRicardo Santamaria 2003 Carlos Lleras de la Fuente 1999 2002 Rodrigo Pardo 1998 1999 Juan Guillermo Cano and Fernando Cano 1986 1997 Guillermo Cano Isaza 1952 1986 Gabriel Cano 1919 1923 Medellin edition 1949 1958 Bogota edition Luis Cano 1919 1949 Fidel Cano Gutierrez 1887 1919 See also edit nbsp Colombia portal nbsp Journalism portalEl Mundo El Colombiano SemanaReferences edit a b Periodicos en busca de nuevos negocios in Spanish Dinero 2008 05 09 a b El Espectador impreso vuelve a ser diario El Espectador in Spanish 2008 05 07 Solano Victor 2008 05 03 El Espectador vuelve a diario el 11 de mayo in Spanish Solano Victor 2008 01 13 Pasara este ano El Periodico in Spanish El Espectador diario in Spanish Semana 2008 04 19 permanent dead link Vendido El Espectador El Tiempo in Spanish 1997 11 13 Osorio Marcela 2008 05 11 Seguimos adelante El Espectador in Spanish Retrieved 2008 05 11 a b El Espectador 2007 12 03 Audiencia de Elespectador com crecio 79 por ciento in Spanish UDEA HISTORIA DEL PERIODISMO ANTIOQUENO PDF in Spanish p 15 Archived from the original PDF on 2007 06 09 Retrieved 2008 05 03 a b c Martinez Helda 2007 03 21 El Espectador cumple 120 anos de protagonista in Spanish Inter Press Service Archived from the original on 2013 01 12 Retrieved 2008 05 03 a b Postales inolvidables in Spanish Revista Cromos 2007 Archived from the original on 2007 06 09 Retrieved 2008 05 03 a b Rueda Maria Isabel 2007 03 17 Quien 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