The Denver Post today launches a Spanish-language website with local news about Denver and Colorado.
Denver Post al Dia (Denver Post Today) is only the second daily source of original local news in Spanish in greater Denver. The only other option is Univision’s TV broadcast.
“We are very excited to make this foray into news and information for the Spanish-speaking audience and to do it through this medium,” said Gregory L. Moore, editor of The Denver Post. “The online newspaper gives consumers freedom to choose when they want to get their news.”
Denver Post al Dia ( www.denverpost.com/aldia) will appear seven days a week. It will include:
* Local stories, photos and video by The Denver Post.
* National, world, business, sports and entertainment news.
* News from Mexico, Central America and South America segregated by country.
* The lottery, comics, puzzles and horoscope.
* Weather
* Links to newspaper websites in Mexico, Latin America and South America.
* A blog by the Colorado Rapids.
“This is overdue,” Moore continued. “English-speaking people in Colorado rely on us to give them news and information, but people who speak only Spanish really couldn’t participate. Now they can.”
Hispanics are the fastest-growing group in Denver, according to the U.S. Census. The population between 1990 and 2000 grew by 89 percent, triple the growth rate of the general population, and by 2004 more than one in five people in metro Denver was Hispanic.
Significantly, only half of Denver Hispanics call English their dominant language, according to 2004 research by Scarborough Research, a consumer-research company. The percentage is actually decreasing, largely due to an increase in immigration. In 1996, for example, 70 percent of Denver-area Hispanics considered English their dominant language.
The Denver Post will also have a web page in English with news from Mexico, Central America and South America. This page will aggregate stories of interest to the Hispanic community, offer news from Mexico, Central America and South America by country, and offer many popular columnists. That page is available at www.denverpost.com/latin.
