El Diario (Mexico, 1906)

El Diario: periódico independiente de la mañana was a newspaper founded in Mexico City on October 13, 1906 by Ernesto Simondetti and Juan Sánchez Azcona.[1][2] It had an illustrated Sunday supplement, El Diario Illustrado.[3]

It has been claimed that it was secretly financed by Enrique Creel.[3]

Its writers included Frías Fernández, Larrañaga Portugal, Torres Palomar, and Jacobo Pratl, as well as the Americans Benjamin De Casseres and a certain O'Brien.[1][3] Its artist was Álvaro Pruneda,[1] along with the American caricaturist Carlo de Fornaro, who became the artistic director of the Diario Illustrado.[3]

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  1. ^ a b c Henry Lepidus, "The History of Mexican Jouralism", The University of Missouri Bulletin 29:4:67, Journalism Series No. 49, January 21, 1928 full text
  2. ^ Lucila E. Flamand Rodríguez, Sensacionalismo periodístico, 1963, p. 14
  3. ^ a b c d Peter Hulme, "Joel’s Revolutionary Table: New York and Mexico City in Turbulent Times", Comparative American Studies An International Journal 15:3-4:117-145 (2017) doi:10.1080/14775700.2017.1551600