Primera Plana
CategoriesPolitical magazine
Cultural magazine
News magazine
FrequencyWeekly
FounderJacobo Timerman
Founded1962
Final issue1973
CountryArgentina
Based inBuenos Aires
LanguageSpanish
ISSN0032-8375
OCLC5628081

Primera Plana was a weekly glossy political, cultural and current affairs magazine published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 1962 and 1973. The magazine was very influential in shaping the journalism tradition in the country.[1][2]

History and profile

Primera Plana was created in 1962 by Jacobo Timerman.[1][3] The magazine modeled on Newsweek and Time magazines.[3][4] It was founded to support for the supposedly liberal wing of the military forces.[1] The headquarters of the magazine was in Buenos Aires.[5]

The magazine was published on a weekly basis[6] and featured articles on culture and current affairs.[7] The weekly had a nationalist stance.[7] It also supported for cultural nationalism and modernization as well as political authoritarianism.[1]

It was the first magazine to publish the comic strip Mafalda.[3] Mafalda, produced by Joaquin Salvador Lavado, was first published in the magazine on 29 September 1964.[8][9] Primera Plana was also the first magazine in Argentine which published a list of best-selling books.[1][10] In June 1964 the magazine initiated an annual literary prize.[7] In 1967 Daniel Moyano's novel El Oscuro won the prize.[11]

Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa was the Lima correspondent of Primera Plana.[12] Argentine author Tomas Eloy Martinez was one of the editors-in-chief of the magazine.[12]

During its existence Primera Plana was closed down by military government several times.[7] In 1971 Juan Perón acquired the magazine when he was in exile in Spain.[3] It ceased publication in 1973.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Mariano Ben Plotkin (2001). Freud in the Pampas: The Emergence and Development of a Psychoanalytic Culture in Argentina. Stanford University Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-8047-4060-9.
  2. ^ Marysa Navarro (Winter 2009). "The Sixties in Argentina". ReVista. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d David William Foster; Melissa Fitch Lockhart; Darrell B. Lockhart (1 January 1998). Culture and Customs of Argentina. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-313-30319-7.
  4. ^ Todd L. Edwards (2008). Argentina: A Global Studies Handbook. ABC-CLIO. p. 268. ISBN 978-1-85109-986-3.
  5. ^ "ICAA Records". ICAA. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  6. ^ John King (2012). "'Ya nunca más seríamos lo que éramos': Tomás Eloy Martínez and Primera Plana in the 1960s". Bulletin of Latin American Research.
  7. ^ a b c d Laura Podalsky (2004). Specular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space in Buenos Aires, 1955-1973. Temple University Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-56639-948-7.
  8. ^ Luciana Palacios. "Mafalda, a 50 years old little girl". The Munich Eye. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  9. ^ "Mafalda's creator 'Quino' wins Prince of Asturias Award". Buenos Aires Herald. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  10. ^ Michael Goebel (2011). Argentina's Partisan Past: Nationalism and the Politics of History. Liverpool University Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-84631-238-0.
  11. ^ Andrew Graham-Yooll (3 July 1992). "Obituary: Daniel Moyano". The Independent. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  12. ^ a b Sebastian Rotella (4 July 1996). "A Cultural Capital: Despite the 'Dirty War' of the '70s, Buenos Aires is still a Literary Haven". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
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