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Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer moved to Mexico from Spain in 1883, where she founded El Álbum de la Mujer (1883-1890), one of the most important feminist journals of the epoch. This article studies the troubled waters that Gimeno had to navigate shortly after her arrival in the country, and the impact that her unconditional support of the Porfiriato had on her standing, with both the press and portions of society of the period. This text identifies several previously unknown texts and pseudonyms of the author, proposes that interdependence with the Porfiriato extended to her subsequent editorial project -El Álbum Ibero-Americano (Madrid, 1890-1909) until its conclusion-, and that this relationship may explain why the journal stopped abruptly its publication in 1909, after two decades of existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study makes a comparison between the main weeklies oriented to the Latino community that are edited in Madrid and Washington. D.C. The research finds differences in the journalistic treatment between the analyzed publications. Although these immigrant oriented newspapers are characterized a journalism of service to intended reduce social uncertainty witch their readers frequently suffer (a community with many of its members are in irregular migratory status). The latin newspaper in D.C. has an informative discourse far away from the journalism of service formulas. In many occasions often latinos weeklies that are published in D.C. reflect address issues to the Latino community with excessively alarmist headlines, an aspect barely seen in the Latin publications that are distributed in Madrid where the more positive aspects of the immigrant community are the dominant themes. The study was carried out in more 200 front pages of for Latino and Sí, se puede weeklies in Spain and Washington Hispanic and El Tiempo Latino in the United States all case during 2011. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article shows the main conclusions of research originating from the concern about how the low consumption of paid-for dailies, together with college students' lack of interest in reading observed by the author during years of lecturing, poses serious doubts about who will read newspapers in the future. Based on questionnaires given out to 400 students from the Universidad Complutense, it draws a map of media consumption with informative purposes by university students. It also analyses their trust in the media and the time they spend on reading in general and newspapers in particular, as well as their motivations for reading dailies. The aim, therefore, is to verify scientifically the mentioned lack of interest and its causes, and provide solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]