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The variation between papers is notable. E/ Nuevo Herald focused heavily on political stories (64.1%). El Diario had a mix of political (31%), immigration (28.6%), and crime (21.4%) stories. La Opinion, on the other hand, focused heavily on immigration stories (50%). Another variation of note is how the papers place Latinxs prominently in news stories they would not otherwise be featured in. While 76% of E/ Diario, 62% of E! Nuevo Herald, and 61% of La Opinion stories featured a Latinx person, there was variation in topical focuses. For example, a story in E/ Nuevo Herald about organ donations features a Latina woman and her child as the subjects. Organ donation is an issue not often tied to Latinxs, so this symbolic tying is notable in the Spanish language press. Otherwise, Latinxs are seen being excited for a new soccer team in E/ Diario, protesting ICE in La Opinion, and even “have similar foreign policy opinions as Americans,” according to a front-page story in E! Nuevo Herald. |n the stories with a coded Latinx subject, E/ Diario and La Opinion most often placed them in related to immigration. 38% of E/ Diario stories and 73% of La Opinion stories tied Latinx subjects to immigration. At the same time, E/ Nuevo Herald did not do this — most of their stories featuring a Latinx person were either in political or economic news.

Table 7 The variation between papers is notable. E/ Nuevo Herald focused heavily on political stories (64.1%). El Diario had a mix of political (31%), immigration (28.6%), and crime (21.4%) stories. La Opinion, on the other hand, focused heavily on immigration stories (50%). Another variation of note is how the papers place Latinxs prominently in news stories they would not otherwise be featured in. While 76% of E/ Diario, 62% of E! Nuevo Herald, and 61% of La Opinion stories featured a Latinx person, there was variation in topical focuses. For example, a story in E/ Nuevo Herald about organ donations features a Latina woman and her child as the subjects. Organ donation is an issue not often tied to Latinxs, so this symbolic tying is notable in the Spanish language press. Otherwise, Latinxs are seen being excited for a new soccer team in E/ Diario, protesting ICE in La Opinion, and even “have similar foreign policy opinions as Americans,” according to a front-page story in E! Nuevo Herald. |n the stories with a coded Latinx subject, E/ Diario and La Opinion most often placed them in related to immigration. 38% of E/ Diario stories and 73% of La Opinion stories tied Latinx subjects to immigration. At the same time, E/ Nuevo Herald did not do this — most of their stories featuring a Latinx person were either in political or economic news.

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Table 1: Geographic focus of front-page stories FI Nuevo Herald, published in South Florida and owned by the same parent company as The Miam Herald, is the second largest daily Spanish-language paper in the United States. Compared to the other papers sampled in this study, E/ Nuevo Herald featured more stories about Latin America and more stories about U.S./Latin American relations. This represents a deviation from the expected norm as well as in comparison to La Opinion and E! Diario. Strikingly, E/ Diario featured no stories about Latin America unless it was in relationship to the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, over 50% of Miami-Dade residents are foreign born, while 25% of El Paso residents and 35% of Los Angeles residents are foreign born. Miami is often called the “capita of Latin America,” which, combined with its high population of foreign-born Cubans, Central Americans, and South Americans, may help explain why £/ Nuevo Herald consistently publishes more stories about Latin America. A heavy focus in the sampled papers was on the crisis in Venezuela, sometimes with Cuba in the mix. For example, for three days in a row there were stories on “medicinas cubanas,” Venezuelan troops, and Cuban doctors in Venezuela. The sam from E/ Nuevo Herald is featured in Table 2: ple
Table 1: Geographic focus of front-page stories FI Nuevo Herald, published in South Florida and owned by the same parent company as The Miam Herald, is the second largest daily Spanish-language paper in the United States. Compared to the other papers sampled in this study, E/ Nuevo Herald featured more stories about Latin America and more stories about U.S./Latin American relations. This represents a deviation from the expected norm as well as in comparison to La Opinion and E! Diario. Strikingly, E/ Diario featured no stories about Latin America unless it was in relationship to the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, over 50% of Miami-Dade residents are foreign born, while 25% of El Paso residents and 35% of Los Angeles residents are foreign born. Miami is often called the “capita of Latin America,” which, combined with its high population of foreign-born Cubans, Central Americans, and South Americans, may help explain why £/ Nuevo Herald consistently publishes more stories about Latin America. A heavy focus in the sampled papers was on the crisis in Venezuela, sometimes with Cuba in the mix. For example, for three days in a row there were stories on “medicinas cubanas,” Venezuelan troops, and Cuban doctors in Venezuela. The sam from E/ Nuevo Herald is featured in Table 2: ple
Table 2: Geographic focus of E! Nuevo Herald front-page stories
Table 2: Geographic focus of E! Nuevo Herald front-page stories
Table 3: El Nuevo Herald local stories Published in Los Angeles, La Opinidn follows Latinx audience formation more consistently than E/ Nuevo Herald. The vast majority of front-page stories were published about the United States but often in relation to Latin America. Reflecting this finding, the former publisher of the paper, Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr., was quoted as saying, “Our mission was no longer to be a Mexican newspaper published in Los Angeles, but an American newspaper that happens to be published in Spanish” on the paper’s website. The breakdown of stories is seen in Table 4:
Table 3: El Nuevo Herald local stories Published in Los Angeles, La Opinidn follows Latinx audience formation more consistently than E/ Nuevo Herald. The vast majority of front-page stories were published about the United States but often in relation to Latin America. Reflecting this finding, the former publisher of the paper, Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr., was quoted as saying, “Our mission was no longer to be a Mexican newspaper published in Los Angeles, but an American newspaper that happens to be published in Spanish” on the paper’s website. The breakdown of stories is seen in Table 4:
Table 4: Geographic focus of La Opinion front-page stories
Table 4: Geographic focus of La Opinion front-page stories
Table 5: Geographic focus of El Diario de El Paso front-page stories The overwhelming majority of stories about the United States on the front page of E/ Diario are local (80%). Even when stories focus on state or national issues, they are usually contextualized in terms of local concerns. For example, a story entitled “‘Respira’ la frontera con pacto comercial” detailed El Pasoans’ (or Pasenos, as the paper often refers to its subjects) reaction to the trade deal replacing NAFTA. Similar stories appeared about the U.S. Senate election in Texas between El Pasoan Beto O’Rourke and Ted Cruz, and immigration issues.
Table 5: Geographic focus of El Diario de El Paso front-page stories The overwhelming majority of stories about the United States on the front page of E/ Diario are local (80%). Even when stories focus on state or national issues, they are usually contextualized in terms of local concerns. For example, a story entitled “‘Respira’ la frontera con pacto comercial” detailed El Pasoans’ (or Pasenos, as the paper often refers to its subjects) reaction to the trade deal replacing NAFTA. Similar stories appeared about the U.S. Senate election in Texas between El Pasoan Beto O’Rourke and Ted Cruz, and immigration issues.
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