Clarín (newspaper)

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Image:Logo clarin.jpg
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Clarin Group
Founded	1945
Headquarters	Buenos Aires, Argentina

Website: www.clarin.com

Clarín is a major newspaper in Argentina, founded by Roberto Noble on August 28 1945, and is of centrist political persuasions.

Based in Buenos Aires, the newspaper has a print out of around 500.000, is printed in different points of the country and distributed all over it. Clarín has a participation of the 44% of the sales of newspapers in Buenos Aires. The electronic version, www.clarin.com is one of the most visited Spanish language newspapers on the Internet.

Grupo Clarín (Clarín Group) also prints the sports newspaper Olé (since 1996), Elle magazine in Argentina (since 1994), and the afternoon paper La Razón. It also owns the majority of the Canal 13 TV network, 3 radio stations, and has participation in other multimedia projects.

In 1988 the monopolic group Clarin begins its plan of total expantion over media in Argentina. It buys Pagina 12, Radio mitre and obtains Canal 13 exchanging favors with Argentinian goverment at the time, monopolising soccer transmissions, taking south and northern mobile phones communications, and buys hundreds of cable TV companies, dominating one of the biggest periodistic national companies, gets 800.000 cable customers, influences over the goverment to get favors from the official agency Telam -which until 1996 handled all advertisement from public organizations - December 27th 1999, The Clarín Group and Goldman Sachs, on of the leading firms in investment, subscribed an investment agreement where the group , managed by Goldman Sachs, made a direct investment in Clarín Group. The operation implied an increase of capital to the Clarin Group and the incorporation of Goldman Sachs as minority partner, with a participation of 18% of the stocks.