"Two of Puerto Rico’s biggest newspapers announced Monday that they will end their print editions in upcoming days and pivot to digital only, joining a worldwide trend.
GFR Media, a Puerto Rican company that publishes El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora, said Monday that the decision responds to a change in consumer habits.
Sept. 24 will mark the last print edition for Primera Hora and Sept. 27 for El Nuevo Día, according to the papers.
“We continue to evolve with the Puerto Rico of the 21st century, one that today numbers more than nine million Puerto Ricans who live on the Island, in the United States, in Europe and in the rest of the world. We have always been, and will continue to be, wherever Puerto Rico is,” María Luisa Ferré Rangel, publisher of GFR Media, said in a statement.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many people would be laid off. A spokesperson for GFR Media said the company’s only comment for now was the official statement it issued.
Nearly 3,500 newspapers in the U.S. mainland have closed in the past two decades, leading to the elimination of more than 270,000 newspaper jobs, according to Poynter, a nonprofit media institute."
