La Correspondencia De Puerto Rico (San Juan, P.R.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
6,526 issues from 1890 to 1910, published in San Juan, Puerto Rico, digitised for Chronicling America.
La Correspondencia de Puerto Rico, a reflection of La Correspondencia de España, was founded by Ramón B. López in San Juan on December 18, 1890. Priced at one cent, it appealed to the general public and quickly became the largest circulating daily newspaper in Puerto Rico with a print run of 5,000 copies a day. Due to its popularity, it was conferred the sarcastic nickname of “El periódico de las cocineras”(the housewife’s newspaper). La Correspondencia de Puerto Rico is considered the first daily news report on the island accessible to a wider public.
In his dissertation Análisis histórico de la noción del “periodismo profesional” en Puerto Rico-del siglo XIX al XX-(2007)(“Historic Analysis of the Notion of Professional Journalism in Puerto Rico in the 19th and 20th Centuries”), journalism professor Luis Fernando Coss highlighted the modernist elements embodied in La Correspondencia. A clear rupture with the traditional partisan press, an interest in covering general issues of relevance beyond the local claims of the press in the major cities of San Juan, Ponce, and Mayaguez, and a flaunting of objectivity all marked the beginning of a new era for newspapers in Puerto Rico.
La Correspondencia caught the attention of its readers with reports on tariffs in 1895, its sober discussion of the monopolies and the urban protests against them, and its focus on the war for Cuban independence. The newspaper’s coverage of the momentous years 1897 through 1899 associated with the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
- Language
- Spanish
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress