El_Diario_(Mexico,_1906)
El Diario (Mexico, 1906)
Mexico City newspaper founded in 1906
El Diario: periódico independiente de la mañana was a newspaper founded in Mexico City on October 13, 1906 by Ernesto Simondetti and Juan Sánchez Azcona.[1][2] It had an illustrated Sunday supplement, El Diario Illustrado.[3]
It has been claimed that it was secretly financed by Enrique Creel.[3]
Its writers included Frías Fernández, Larrañaga Portugal, Torres Palomar, and Jacobo Pratl, as well as the Americans Benjamin De Casseres and a certain O'Brien.[1][3] Its artist was Álvaro Pruneda,[1] along with the American caricaturist Carlo de Fornaro, who became the artistic director of the Diario Illustrado.[3]