The San Juan Daily Star , originally The San Juan Star , is the only English and Spanish newspaper in Puerto Rico . The Pulitzer Prize -winning newspaper was published by Star Media Network, a subdivision of San Juan Star, Inc.
4-608: The newspaper was founded in 1959 by William J. Dorvillier , and was intended for the English-speaking population in Puerto Rico . Pulitzer Prize -winning novelist William Kennedy was once the managing editor of the Star , soon after its inception to 1961. Other contributors included Eddie López and Juan Manuel García Passalacqua . Scott Ware served as managing editor from 1991 to 1992, then editor until 1994. The paper
8-587: A business trip to the Dominican Republic. The newspaper continues to operate under the ownership of the Angulo family. This Puerto Rican culture-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . William J. Dorvillier William Joseph Dorvillier (April 24, 1908 - May 5, 1993) was the 1961 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing . Dorvillier
12-687: Was born in North Adams, Massachusetts , in 1908. Dorvillier was the founder, publisher and editor of The San Juan Star . With its first issue in November 1959 it was an English language paper published in Puerto Rico. Dorvillier wrote a series of twenty editorials criticizing the Catholic Church 's interference in the 1960 general elections in Puerto Rico, where 90% of the population was Roman Catholic. Dorvillier's editorials produced
16-584: Was sold in 1996 from then owner Scripps-Howard to Gerardo Angulo, a prominent Cuban businessman and venture capitalist who had formerly worked with money manager Ivan Boesky . The paper was shut down in August 2008, in what its staff contended was a union busting operation. In 2009, The San Juan Star relaunched, renamed The San Juan Daily Star, having increased to daily publication: Monday through Thursday with an additional weekend edition. On October 23, 2015, Gerardo Angulo died in an automobile accident during
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