# Puerto Rico's two biggest papers go digital only

> El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora end print editions as newspaper industry sheds hundreds of thousands of jobs worldwide.
- Title: Puerto Rico's two biggest papers go digital only · Fortune
- Summary: El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora end print editions as newspaper industry sheds hundreds of thousands of jobs worldwide. Puerto Rico's two largest newspapers…
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- Source: Fortune — https://fortune.com/2026/09/22/puerto-rico-newspapers-go-digital
- Author: Danica Coto
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: el nuevo día, primera hora, gfr media, puerto rico, newspapers, digital transition, print decline, media industry
## Two Puerto Rico papers end print
GFR Media announced Monday that El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora will stop printing. Primera Hora's last print edition is September twenty-fourth. El Nuevo Día's is September twenty-seventh.
## Publisher cites changing reader habits
María Luisa Ferré Rangel, publisher of GFR Media, said the shift responds to how people consume news. She noted more than nine million Puerto Ricans live on the island, in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.

> We continue to evolve with the Puerto Rico of the 21st century, one that today numbers more than nine million Puerto Ricans who live on the Island, in the United States, in Europe and in the rest of the world.
## Steep job losses at parent company
From two thousand fifteen to two thousand twenty-five, Grupo Ferré Rangel cut unionized employees from nearly four hundred to less than one hundred, according to the Association of Puerto Rican Journalists.
## Global newspaper industry in crisis
Nearly three thousand five hundred newspapers in the U.S. mainland have closed in the past two decades, eliminating more than two hundred seventy thousand newspaper jobs, according to Poynter, a nonprofit media institute.
## El Nuevo Día's digital reach grows
El Nuevo Día launched its digital site in nineteen ninety-seven and now has more than three point four million unique monthly users. Primera Hora, which began publishing that same year, has more than two point eight million.
## New digital programs planned
El Nuevo Día recently launched a digital news program via video-podcast format and will launch a news analysis program next month using the same format to focus on the week's top story.
## Key takeaway

Puerto Rico's two largest newspapers end print editions this month, joining a global shift to digital as the industry contracts sharply.