After 30 years of keeping the neighborhood informed solely in Spanish, El Mensajero will now be run from Chicago without a local editor. Nonetheless, it will continue to be published online and in print.
From what constituted the local staff employed by El Mensajero, only the distributors, freelance reporters and commissioned sales persons will remain, because “the idea is to sell, not keep what’s in the best interest of the newspaper,” Ibarra said. READ MORE.
El Mensajero was one of very few newspapers published in Spanish in the Bay Area.
El Tecolote has the story on how the local Spanish newspaper had the editor dismissed and their staff cut back back in mid-August.
“It is a complete mistake. The communities—although they’re all Latin—are very different in different parts of the USA, even though the problems that afflict them are the same,” said Rodriguez. “It reflects the lack of weight of the Latino community in San Francisco.” READ MORE.