LOS INICIOS DE EL MERCURIO DE SANTIAGO EN EL EPISTOLARIO DE AGUSTÍN EDWARDS MAC CLURE (1899-1905)

Press historians have periodically regarded the foundation of "El Mercurio" newspaper in Santiago in 1900 as the turning point at which the modernization of the Chilean press began. However, the better part of their publications’ analysis has omitted a key factor: To show that this newspap...

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Autores principales: Bernedo Pinto,Patricio, Arriagada Cardini,Eduardo
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Instituto de Historia. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2002
Acceso en línea:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-71942002003500003
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Sumario:Press historians have periodically regarded the foundation of "El Mercurio" newspaper in Santiago in 1900 as the turning point at which the modernization of the Chilean press began. However, the better part of their publications’ analysis has omitted a key factor: To show that this newspaper’s entrepreneurial and journalistic proposal faced in its early stages many hardships and ups-and-downs. The beginnings of this newspaper were a story in themselves. With that hypothesis en mind and based on the newspaper founder’s letter exchange, this investigation seeks to demonstrate that "El Mercurio" took more than three years to become the newspaper that has been hailed by press historians