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 This morning we had the opportunity to visit one of the oldest newspapers in Mexico. The Diario de Yucatan is currently celebrating it's 90th year of searching for and sharing "the truth, justice and patriotism" with the people of Yucatan and surrounding areas. We got to hear a little bit about the tumultuous history of the newspaper, whose founder was jailed various times because of his critical take on governmental issues. The Diario is also consistently ahead of the game, creating an online version in 1995, 4 months before even the New York Times had its site up and running!

The visit ended with a look at common orthographic errors as well as interesting facts about Spanish words. For example, the longest word in the Spanish language is "electroencefalografistas." We had a great time exploring the historic building and learning about different aspects of the newspaper business!
Ready to head out

Gaspar Lopez sharing with us a brief history of the newspaper. 

Learning about the laborious printing processes of years past
The keyboard with one section for upper case letters, one for lower case and one for symbols
Demonstrating how the articles would be arranged before being wheeled off to the printer

The group with our wonderful guide Gaspar!


Browsing through the articles that they have on display

The telegram machine that typed out messages sent by the Associated Press


Explaining the necessary traits of a cover photo: focus, color, emotion and news

Meeting with the website editor and learning about how reporters in the field send in photos and stories via cellphones from wherever they are. The web version has been available for 20 years, two years before Google was online! 

A look at the different versions 

And off to the printers! 

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Talking about the historic architecture of the building

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