Primera Plana

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Primera Plana
CategoriesPolitical magazine
Cultural magazine
News magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founder Jacobo Timerman
Year founded1962
Final issue1973
Country Argentina
Based in Buenos Aires
Language Spanish
ISSN 0032-8375
OCLC 5628081

Primera Plana was a weekly glossy political, cultural and current affairs magazine published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 1962 and 1973. The magazine was very influential in shaping the journalism tradition in the country. [1] [2]

History and profile

Primera Plana was created in 1962 by Jacobo Timerman. [1] [3] The magazine modeled on Newsweek and Time magazines. [3] [4] It was founded to support for the supposedly liberal wing of the military forces. [1] The headquarters of the magazine was in Buenos Aires. [5]

The magazine was published on a weekly basis [6] and featured articles on culture and current affairs. [7] The weekly had a nationalist stance. [7] It also supported for cultural nationalism and modernization as well as political authoritarianism. [1]

It was the first magazine to publish the comic strip Mafalda . [3] Mafalda, produced by Joaquin Salvador Lavado, was first published in the magazine on 29 September 1964. [8] [9] Primera Plana was also the first magazine in Argentine which published a list of best-selling books. [1] [10] In June 1964 the magazine initiated an annual literary prize. [7] In 1967 Daniel Moyano's novel El Oscuro won the prize. [11]

Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa was the Lima correspondent of Primera Plana. [12] Argentine author Tomas Eloy Martinez was one of the editors-in-chief of the magazine. [12]

During its existence Primera Plana was closed down by military government several times. [7] In 1971 Juan Perón acquired the magazine when he was in exile in Spain. [3] It ceased publication in 1973.

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