The Daily Journal (1945–2008)

The Daily Journal was an English language newspaper founded in 1945, published in Caracas, Venezuela. The market of the Daily Journal was English-reading people in Venezuela mostly employees of oil companies and the diplomatic corps established in Caracas. The newspaper stopped circulating in 2008 after President Hugo Chávez ordered Military Intelligence to arrest and interrogate the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Journal.

The Daily Journal’s main client was the Embassy of the United States of America in Caracas. This newspaper had been equipped with state-of-the-art technology before its closure and had offices in Lima and Bogotá.

In its last years of circulation and under the implementation of its last Editor in Chief, The Daily Journal had the services of more than 20 sources of information among which were The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Le Monde and Der Spiegel among others.

The Daily Journal was originally published under the name The Caracas Journal, on the cover page of August 30, 1946. UC Berkeley, Berkeley Calif., On September 3, 2018. (Julio Augusto Lopez / The Daily Journal)
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