El Nuevo Diario

What is El Nuevo Diario?

El Nuevo Diario is a Santo Domingo daily newspaper published online at elnuevodiario.com.do, with its publisher given in its own footer as Editora El Nuevo Diario at Ave. Francia, No. 41, Esq. Rocco Cochia, San Juan Bosco, Santo Domingo.^[2]

The paper's own page states that “La EDITORA EL NUEVO DIARIO, S. A. es una sociedad comercial cuya actividad fundamental es la edición del periódico dominicano «El Nuevo Diario»”, names Persio Maldonado Sánchez as director and Cosette Bonnelly as executive director, and describes the paper as “el periódico de los dominicanos”.^[1] Those are the outlet's statements about itself.

Reporters Without Borders writes of the Dominican Republic that “However, the concentration of media ownership in the hands of a few private groups, such as Grupo Corripio, has raised concerns regarding pluralism and editorial independence.”, and places the country 44th of 180 in its 2026 World Press Freedom Index with a score of 69.73.^[5]

What does El Nuevo Diario cover?

The paper's own list of its content categories runs across editorial, national news, denuncias, opinion, legal, politics, sustainability, economics, sport, entertainment, international news, health, environment and social coverage, together with digital strands including END TV and podcasts.^[1]

The Deportes section carries daily items. On 23 September 2026 it ran reports on Dominican players at the end of the Major League Baseball season, on a domestic basketball tournament result, on an injury to a Dominican major-league outfielder, and on the national volleyball team beginning preparation for a Nations League match against Nicaragua.^[3]

Its sports archive pages mix disciplines: a section listing retrieved the same day carried a report of a Dominican sprinter's world record for deaf athletes set at a championship in Japan, alongside a chess championship item.^[4] The same listing carried non-sporting items in the same run, so the archive page is not a clean sport-only index.^[4]

The paper's digital strands are listed by the paper itself as including END TV and podcasts, which sit alongside the written sections rather than replacing them.^[1]

How large is El Nuevo Diario's audience?

No audited circulation figure and no audited audience currency for the Dominican market could be retrieved for this page, and the paper publishes no readership number on its own institutional page.^[1] Traffic estimators are not audited measurement and none is quoted here.

The paper describes its readership in terms of reach rather than number, saying that it keeps readers informed about political, social, economic and artistic events in the Dominican Republic and in Dominican communities abroad; that is the outlet's own description.^[1] Its Deportes index carried items dated 23 September 2026 when retrieved.^[3]

The company itself publishes corporate rather than audience information: its institutional page gives the company form, the founding date it claims and the names of two officers, and no distribution or readership figure accompanies them.^[1] The address given in the site footer is the only other verifiable corporate detail retrieved.^[2]

Since when has El Nuevo Diario existed?

The paper states that “La EDITORA EL NUEVO DIARIO, S. A. fue fundada el 8 de mayo del año de 1981”.^[1] That is a founding date for the publishing company, which is not necessarily the date of the newspaper's first issue, and the page retrieved does not give a separate first-issue date.

No independent instrument establishing either date was retrieved for this page. The company name appears in the same form in the site's footer.^[2]

Why does El Nuevo Diario matter in Dominican Republic's sport?

The paper publishes a daily sports file that covers the domestic game and Dominican athletes abroad in the same run: on one retrieved day it carried domestic basketball, national-team volleyball and Dominicans in MLB in adjacent items.^[3]

It also reports results outside the main federations' programmes, such as the world record set by a Dominican sprinter in the deaf athletes' category at a championship in Japan, and it files chess alongside the ordinary sports in the same listing.^[4] That breadth is visible on the section index rather than asserted anywhere by the paper.^[3]

Its officers are named on its own institutional page — Persio Maldonado Sánchez as director and Cosette Bonnelly as executive director — which is more corporate detail than several Dominican titles publish, and it is the paper's own statement.^[1]

Reporters Without Borders' statement about concentration of media ownership among a few private groups is quoted above and is RSF's characterisation of the market, not this page's.^[5]