El Vocero is a Puerto Rican

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 newspaper that is published in San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...

.

Published since 1974, El Vocero was at first the third of the four largest Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 newspapers, trailing El Mundo

El Mundo (Puerto Rico)

-History:El Mundo was founded in 1919 by Romualdo Real.In 1929, former corrector-turned-administrator Angel Ramos and journalist José Coll Vidal, bought the newspaper when Real retired. In 1946 Ramos was the sole owner of the newspaper.-Acquisitions:...

and El Nuevo Día

El Nuevo Día

El Nuevo Día is a Puerto Rican newspaper based in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico and distributed daily throughout Puerto Rico and some parts of the United States.- History :...

and leading The San Juan Star

The San Juan Star

The now-defunct The San Juan Star was an English-language, Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The newspaper was published by Star Media Network, a subdivision of San Juan Star, Inc., which once owned San Juan City Magazine, El Mayagüez Star, and El Ponce Star.The...

in sales. With the temporary demise in the late 1980s of El Mundo, El Vocero became even more popular, becoming the country's second largest newspaper. It is owned since 1985 by Caribbean International News Corp. The owners of Caribbean International News Corp, and therefore owners of El Vocero, are Elliot Stein, I. Martin Pompadur and The Henry Crown Co.

For most of its history, El Vocero was known as a sensationalist tabloid that dramatized all the violent news. However, in the early 2000s, the newspaper changed its direction, becoming a mainstream newspaper, adding a much broader coverage of entertainment as well as business related news, and carrying more political news, as in the situation in Vieques.

In addition to its regular news section, El Vocero also has business, entertainment, sport

Sport

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s, and travel sections, among others. Until recently, it was the only Spanish-language newspaper in Puerto Rico that published a daily editorial until 'El Nuevo Día', as part of its recent makeover, started featuring a daily editorial. The English-language 'The San Juan Star' has published daily editorials since its inception, having received a Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for editorial writing.

"El Vocero" reaches every city in Puerto Rico, outselling the competition in many of them, with a paid circulation 115,000. It also has abridged New York

New York

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, Miami, and Chicago editions. José M. Saldaña

José M. Saldaña

José M. Saldaña is a Puerto Rican academic who served as President of the University of Puerto Rico during the 1980s. He is a member of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity. He graduated from U.H.S. at Rio Piedras, before obtaining his bachelor, masters and Doctor of Dental Medicine degree at the University...

 is a frequent op-ed contributor to the newspaper.

Gaspar Roca

Gaspar Roca

Gaspar Roca was a Puerto Rican journalist and economist.He attended and graduated from the Valley Forge Military Academy He was educated at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and held prominent positions in government and the private sector, including the presidency of the Puerto Rico...

 was responsible for most, if not all, of the successful freedom-of-information judicial cases in Puerto Rico.

On April 8, 2007, Gaspar Roca

Gaspar Roca

Gaspar Roca was a Puerto Rican journalist and economist.He attended and graduated from the Valley Forge Military Academy He was educated at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and held prominent positions in government and the private sector, including the presidency of the Puerto Rico...

, the paper's founding publisher and editor in chief died due to a respiratory arrest. He was replaced by his son Miguel Roca. As of January 2011 Miguel Roca is no longer working at the newspaper, and has been replaced by a San Juan based construction lawyer named Peter Miller.