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Friday, August 16, 2002 Sun-Sentinel to Publish Weekly Spanish Language Newspaper 
Sun-Sentinel Company has announced plans to publish a weekly
Spanish language newspaper to serve Broward County's growing
Hispanic population beginning in October.
El Sentinel will include local news and information, as well as
national and international news from South and Central America,
Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico and other nations of key interest to
Broward County's Hispanic community. It will feature coverage
of local events, community news, sports, entertainment,
lifestyle, and will have an opinion page. El Sentinel's
content will also be available on an accompanying website.
"Broward County's Hispanic population has tripled since 1990 according to the 2000 Census," said Sun-Sentinel Company President Bob Gremillion. "We believe El Sentinel will help serve the news and information needs of this growing audience and help us to continue to reflect our increasingly diverse marketplace." Anibal Torres has been announced as publisher of El Sentinel and elSentinel.com, effective immediately. Torres was also appointed as a director of Orlando Sentinel Communications. In this new role Torres will have overall responsibility for the weekly bilingual newspaper and its companion website, and will oversee their business and advertising functions. Prior to his appointment as publisher, Torres was division manager for regional advertising for Orlando Sentinel Communications. The editor of El Sentinel will be Deborah Ramirez, who is joining El Sentinel after serving most recently as an editorial writer and columnist for the Sun-Sentinel. Ramirez, who has been with the Sun-Sentinel since 1992, holds a master's degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree from the University of Puerto Rico. Before joining the Sun-Sentinel, Ramirez served as a reporter and assistant city editor at the San Juan Star, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. El Sentinel will draw on the resources of the Sun-Sentinel, including its news bureaus in San Juan and Havana, Cuba. The Sun-Sentinel is the only South Florida newspaper with full-time news bureaus in Puerto Rico and Cuba. In addition, El Sentinel will publish news from its sister papers, including Orlando's El Sentinel, Hoy in New York, Exito in Chicago and La Opinion in Los Angeles. El Sentinel will be distributed free on Saturdays to targeted Hispanic households and will also be available in racks throughout Broward County. Distribution will be approximately 60,000 copies weekly.
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