By Maira Magro
The two papers, Clarín and La Nación, owner of 71.5 percent of the shares of Papel Prensa, have published a letter in which they urge the government to sell its shares so the newsprint company can operate “without political interference."
According to Clarín, Papel Prensa furnishes 95 percent of the newspapers in Argentina. Since last September, the company has been involved in a controversy between the government and private Argentine media.
For more details, see the Spanish version of this post.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
