Proceso (magazine)
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Proceso (
History
Political pressure on Excélsior
The magazine debuted on November 6, 1976, during the term of President Luis Echeverría Álvarez, after political pressure caused Scherer to be expelled from his position of editor of Excélsior.[4][5] Artists and intellectuals donated paintings, ceramics, sculptures and photographs to be auctioned to finance Comunicación e Información, S.A. (CISA), the magazine's publishing company.[citation needed]
Foundation
Scherer and other ex-columnists and reporters founded Proceso, edited by CISA. The first years of the magazine were difficult and the board had problems issuing paychecks to its staff. A year later, the director of Proceso,
In 2000, Francisco Ortiz Pinchetti, one of the magazine's founders and best known reporters, along with his son, Francisco Ortiz Pardo, a reporter himself, covered Vicente Fox's presidential campaign. One of their texts was changed and mutilated by editorial board, to present Fox in a negative light. After a public correction was published in the magazine, both were expelled without explanations. The story was explained in the book El fenómeno Fox: la historia que Proceso censuró.[6]
Fox presidency
In 2003,
On May 3 of the same year, Marta Sahagún filed a civil lawsuit before the Tribunal Superior de Justicia del
On November 27, 2005, Proceso published an article titled Amistades peligrosas ("Dangerous friendships"), wherein Raquenel Villanueva, a lawyer who has defended drug kingpins, declares she met
Shortly after the death of Pope John Paul II, Proceso had the famous cover (April 2005, issue 1484) of a broadly smiling Marta Sahagún dressed in black while her husband was in a press conference after attending the pope's funeral (both Marta and Fox declared themselves devout Christians and traveled to the funeral).[citation needed]
Staff
Board
- President: Julio Scherer García
- Vice president: Vicente Leñero
- Editor: Rafael Rodríguez Castañeda
- Director: Rafael Rodríguez Castañeda
Columnists
- Denise Dresser
- Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa
- Carlos Monsiváis
- Carlos Montemayor
- Canek Sánchez Guevara
- Carlos Tello
- Jorge Volpi
Reporters
References
- ISBN 978-1-136-69133-1. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- ISBN 978-0313349485. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
- ^ "Massive Purchases of Mexican News Magazine Reported". Latin American Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 22 November 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- ^ "Journalist Julio Scherer, who challenged Mexico's powerful, dies". NBC News. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ Caballero, Alejandro. "Fallece Julio Scherer García". Proceso. Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ "Ortiz Pinchetti, despedido de Notimex". Etcetera (in Spanish). January 2002. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
External links
- Official site (in Spanish)
- ProcesoFoto (in Spanish): Database of images published in the magazine