El Nuevo Diario

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El Nuevo Diario
TypeDaily newspaper
Founded1980
Ceased publication27 September 2019
HeadquartersManagua
Circulation 50 000 (2010)

El Nuevo Diario was a Nicaraguan newspaper, with offices in the capital Managua.

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History

In 1980, the owner of La Prensa fired the editor Xavier Chamorro Cardenal. Eighty percent of the paper's employees left with Chamorro Cardenal due to La Prensa's increasingly anti-Sandinista line and founded El Nuevo Diario. [1] :126

From 2010 to 2019, El Nuevo Diario was one of the two major newspapers in Nicaragua (the other one being La Prensa ). [2]

El Nuevo Diario suspended its physical printing and digital editions on 27 September 2019. [3] [4]

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