The New York Times newspaper has announced the closing as of Tuesday of its Spanish edition, which it launched in 2016, for not being "financially successful . "
"While the site in Spanish attracted a considerable new audience towards our journalism, and regularly produced articles of which we are proud, it did not prove to be financially successful," the newspaper explained in a note to its readers.
The Spanish edition produced a dozen articles a day , mostly translations of English but also original and opinion, and according to that note was part of an "experiment" that expanded the coverage of The New York Times to different languages.
Despite the closure of the platform as conceived, the New York newspaper said that "the editors will continue to translate" their journalism "into more than a dozen languages, even and often into Spanish."
"And we will increase our investment in expanding these translation efforts," he added.
The New York Times said that this decision "will not affect" its coverage in Latin America , with correspondents based in Medellín (Colombia), Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
For its part, the editorial team of The New York Times in Spanish was "saddened" by the closure and defended that the performance of the operation "has been successful under any indicator."
"Although it is a decision based on commercial considerations that saddens us deeply, we are proud to have produced, edited and published in such a short time one of the best pages of Spanish journalism," said the editorial team.
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