El Periodico vs Miami Herald

March 27, 2009 erikawase
Tags: El Periodico, newspaper, The Miami Herald

El Periodico is Barcelona’s most read newspaper and Spain’s third most read newspaper. It was born after Franco died, 30 years ago. I find this interesting because the newspaper was born right at a perfect time when people were allowed to read newspapers again. El Periodico was the first newspaper using color in Spain but critics say that this is too typical of tabloids. They put their most attention to headlines and make the reading easy but serious at the same time. Left side ideologists are not something they want to hide but take pride in that. They understand others do not have the same ideologies as them so they make sure to show both sides of a story, which makes the newspaper pertain to everyone. The newspaper is published in 2 languages: Spanish and Catalan. In their newsroom there are 300 journalists and more photographers then the NY Times. El Periodico practices Media Convergence in that they have an online version, which is integrated.

I decided to compare El Periodico with my local newspaper; The Miami Herald because they have many similarities and differences. Firstly a difference is that The Miami Herald seems to be larger in that there are 450 staff; 144 reporters, 69 editors, 29 photographers, 11 columnists, and 6 critics. They publish 88 pages daily while El Periodico publishes 80. The Miami Herald’s readership is 610,850 daily while El Periodico is pretty close in tie.  Also, The Miami Herald is not Miami’s oldest newspaper like El Periodico is or does not have as much as an interesting history like being born after Franco. The Miami Herald does not really have an ideology and must be more mutual since Miami has such a major gap in ideologies. The graphics in El Periodico are more intense and have more color then the Miami Herald is allowed to even have. I find the headlines in Periodico to also be more thought out.

A major similarity is how both newspapers are published in two languages since the language gap is so large in both cities. Other similarities include a lot of attention on being serious, same layout, and of course the content.

Overall, both newspapers are very popular in their location and present all elements very interestingly and similar. 

 

 

 

Entry Filed under: Journalism 2.0

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