El Sureño is an Argentine daily newspaper printed in the Tierra Del Fuego Province. It was founded in 1991 and is owned by Fagon SRL.[1]
Its headquarters are located in 9 de Julio 431, Río Grande. The current director is Oscar A. González.[2]
It is the sales leader media in the province.[3] It was declared of municipal interest in 2017 by the City council of Rio Grande.[1]
The newspaper is distributed in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, primarily in the cities of Rio Grande and Ushuaia.
El Sureño publishes content organized into the following sections:
In the years 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2012, 2014 and 2015, it published features on the anniversary of the Tierra del Fuego Province creation.[3]
In 2012, Fernando Medina, a reporter for El Sureño, resigned after denouncing internal censorship by the newspaper. He had made a report on expense irregularities in the Rio Grande city founds, in which informed a three times overprice in a sports event organized by the city government.[4]
In 2012, Diego Salazar, a journalist, was intimidated by members of the Truckers Union after taking photos of riots that followed a rally of then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.[5][6]