The News finally launches website
MexicoReporter | Aug 21, 2008 | Comments 3
Remember the English-language newspaper The News which launched last October, pledging independence?
English language newspaper The News hit the streets of Mexico City today after a five year hiatus.
Its directors have promised a more independent tone this time around. In its prior incarnation The News kept its head under the parapet, preferring to keep its advertisers and powerful readers happy rather than rocking the boat.
Victor Hugo O’Farrill Ávila, owner and chairman of The News, said in the opening pages of today’s edition that the aim of the newspaper is to be ‘constructive and serious’, as his grandfather said some 60 years ago when launching the original form of the title in 1950.
But John Moody, chief executive of the paper, was much more bullish when he spoke to MexicoReporter.com a couple of weeks ago.
“I think that we’re going to be the only newspaper in Mexico that sells its readers and not paper and ink. I’m at the service of my readers and not my advertisers.”
Well, after a longer-than-expected wait, the daily has launched its website which you can see here at TheNews.com.mx.
According to my contact there, the site actually launched a month ago, so apologies for the delay – better late than never.
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