El Especialito

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El Especialito
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El Especialito box in Times Square (2014)
TypeWeekly Newspaper
Owner(s)Ibarria Media Group
Founder(s)Antonio Ibarria
Founded1985 (1985)
Headquarters3510 Bergenline Avenue
Union City, New Jersey [1]
CountryUnited States
Circulation 270,000(as of 2015)
Website http://www.elespecial.com

El Especialito is a free Spanish language weekly newspaper magazine, which was originally published under the name of El Especial in the 1980s and renamed in the 1990s. [2] [3] It was founded by Cuban American entrepreneur Antonio Ibarria and is distributed by United States Distributions Inc in northeastern New Jersey, New York City and Miami. [4] [5] [6]

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El Especialito is distributed more than 5,500 yellow news racks in thirteen independent zones. With a weekly publication of 250,000 copies reaching more than one million readers, it the largest Hispanic weekly in the US. [7] [8]

El Especialito is part of Ibarria Media Group, which employees ninety employees and operates as family business run by Ibarria and his two sons, Anthony and John. [4] The group also publishes the paid weeklies El Especial NY/NJ and El Especial Miami, as well as the celebrity newspaper Personalidades. [9] Ibarria has been commended for his contributions to the community of Hispanics, [4] [10] including having a street named for him. [11]

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