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El Mostrador
El primer diario digital de Chile
Type	Newspaper
Format	Online
Owner(s)	La Plaza S.A.
President	Germán Olmedo Acevedo
Founded	1 March 2000; 24 years ago
Political alignment	Pluralism
Language	Spanish
Headquarters	Av Providencia #223; Providencia, Santiago
Website	www.elmostrador.cl

El Mostrador is a Chilean online newspaper, founded on 1 March 2000. Its current president is Germán Olmedo Acedvedo and its director is Federico Joannon Errázuriz.

History

El Mostrador was launched on 1 March 2000 and is Chile's first exclusively digital newspaper.^[1] On 20 November 2001, part of its journalistic content was paywalled, but in 2007 it was reopened, completely free of charge.

On 25 May 2010 the newspaper launched an online television channel, «El Mostrador TV»,^[2] that was transmitted for a digital television signal on channels 24, 26, 27, 28, 30 and 33^[3] within the ring of Américo Vespucio Avenue in Santiago.^[4]

Organization

El Mostrador is an ideologically pluralist journal^[4]^[5] owned by La Plaza S.A. Its president is Germán Olmedo Acevedo, while its vice president is Federico Joannon Errázuriz. The journalistic director is Héctor Cossio López and the deputy director is Iván Weissman.^[6]

Content

The El Mostrador website is organized into the following sections:

News: National and international news, editorials, and letters to the director, among others
Markets: News from the economic field
TV: Analysis, opinion, and cultural billboard in video format
Culture+City: News from the cultural field
Online Life: News from the technological field and the Internet

Incidents

On 19 March 2010 El Mostrador published a report that linked the newly appointed governor of Bío Bío Province, José Miguel Steigmeier, with the inner circle of Paul Schäfer, ex-leader of Villa Baviera, and with supposed participation in money laundering.^[7] Faced with this information, Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter summoned Steigmeier to La Moneda Palace that same day, deciding after the meeting to revoke his appointment to govern Bío Bío.^[8]

On 22 April 2010 Mirko Macari left the directorship of El Mostrador due to his appointment as director of the newspaper La Nación.^[9] However, pressures from the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) made the government of Sebastián Piñera reverse the decision the following day.^[10] The return of Macari to his original post at El Mostrador was made public through a press release from the electronic medium published on 23 April, under the consideration that the previous withdrawal was a voluntary act and that the journalist satisfied "fully the standards of pluralism, independence, and quality that characterize El Mostrador."^[11]

References

^ Mostrador, El (2 October 2017). "EL MOSTRADOR se consolida como el medio digital preferido para informarse por los chilenos". El Mostrador (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
^ Paz, Miguel (25 May 2010). "Ha nacido El Mostrador TV" [El Mostrador TV is Born]. miguelpaz.blogspot.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 December 2017.
^ "Frecuencias de TDT para la migración a la Televisión Digital. Persiste incógnica sobre frecuencias disponibles para nuevos canales de televisión" (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b Jorquera, Juan; Palma, Juaquin (1 March 2000). "El Mostrador: el decano digital" [El Mostrador: The Digital Dean] (in Spanish). Museo de Prensa UDP. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
^ Díaz Bustamante, Vanessa; Olguín Díaz, Freddy (2012). Blogs y medios digitales en Chile: nuevas maneras de informar [Blogs and Digital Media in Chile: New Ways to Inform] (PDF) (Thesis) (in Spanish). Santiago: Academy of Christian Humanism University. p. 27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
^ "Quiénes somos" [Who We Are]. El Mostrador (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
^ Molina Sanhueza, Jorge (19 March 2010). "Gobernador del Bío Bío designado por Piñera ayudó a lavar dinero de la Colonia Dignidad" [Governor of Bío Bío Designated by Piñera Helped to Launder Money From Colonia Dignidad]. El Mostrador (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 December 2017.
^ Covarrubias, Bárbara (19 March 2010). "Gobierno deja sin efecto designación de gobernador del Biobío tras acusaciones" [Governor Annuls Appointment of Governor of Bío Bío After Accusations]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Santiago. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
^ Olmedo Acevedo, Germán (22 April 2010). "Nuevo Director de El Mostrador" [New Director of El Mostrador]. El Mostrador (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 December 2017.
^ Delgado, Felipe (23 April 2010). "Mirko Macari: 'A nadie en la política le importa lo que pase con La Nación'" [Mirko Macari: 'Nobody in Politics Cares What Happens With La Nación'] (in Spanish). Radio Biobío. Archived from the original on 29 April 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
^ Olmedo Acevedo, Germán (23 April 2010). "A los lectores de El Mostrador y a la opinión pública en general" [To the Readers of El Mostrador and to the Public in General]. El Mostrador (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 December 2017.