Puerto Rico Daily Sun
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Puerto Rico Daily Sun is the island's only daily English-language newspaper. The paper is based in San Juan
, Puerto Rico
. It is published seven days a week by Cooperativa Prensa Unida, a workers cooperative established in October 2008 by employees laid off from the defunct The San Juan Star
, which ended publication on Aug. 29, 2008 after an almost 49-year run. Daily Sun reporting staff won awards from the Overseas Press Club and the Puerto Rico Photographers Association in 2009. During that same year, publications such as Editor & Publisher and The Miami Herald ran stories about the nonprofit newspaper. In June 2010, most of its reporters quit after failing to reach an agreement with the co-op board, controlled mostly by circulation staff, over pay and control of the newspaper. Reporters had gone several weeks without being paid. The newspaper continues to be published with a minimal staff.
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...
, 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...
. It is published seven days a week by Cooperativa Prensa Unida, a workers cooperative established in October 2008 by employees laid off from the defunct 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...
, which ended publication on Aug. 29, 2008 after an almost 49-year run. Daily Sun reporting staff won awards from the Overseas Press Club and the Puerto Rico Photographers Association in 2009. During that same year, publications such as Editor & Publisher and The Miami Herald ran stories about the nonprofit newspaper. In June 2010, most of its reporters quit after failing to reach an agreement with the co-op board, controlled mostly by circulation staff, over pay and control of the newspaper. Reporters had gone several weeks without being paid. The newspaper continues to be published with a minimal staff.