Month: January 2020

By Hallie Newnam, Special to Borderzine.com CHICAGO – After 16 years, Hoy—the Spanish-language newspaper of the Tribune Publishing Company—has shut down. In mid-November, the Tribune announced that on Dec. 13, 2019 both Hoy’s print and online operations would end. However, the Tribune was reportedly “aggressively exploring other options” for its Hispanic audience. Many loyal followers of the publication were frustrated and confused about the newspaper’s abrupt end. “This is such a loss for Chicago. Hoy covers this city’s Latinx community with a depth that no other newsroom in the city is capable of doing (or seemingly willing to do),” tweeted Ella Lee, a reporter and editor at The Depaulia, the student news site of DePaul University in Chicago. Hoy’s newsroom was also experiencing...

By Hallie Newnam, Special to Borderzine.com CHICAGO – After 16 years, Hoy—the Spanish-language newspaper of the Tribune Publishing Company—has shut down. In mid-November, the Tribune announced that on Dec. 13, 2019 both Hoy’s print and online operations would end. However, the Tribune was reportedly “aggressively exploring other options” for its Hispanic audience. Many loyal followers of the publication were frustrated and confused about the newspaper’s abrupt end. “This is such a loss for Chicago. Hoy covers this city’s Latinx community with a depth that no other newsroom in the city is capable of doing (or seemingly willing to do),” tweeted Ella Lee, a reporter and editor at The Depaulia, the student news site of DePaul University in Chicago. Hoy’s newsroom was also experiencing...