Transformaciones y relevos en el campo periodí­stico argentino del cambio de siglo (XIX - XX): de Don Quijote a Caras y Caretas

Abstract

Focusing on the journalistic field during the first period of Caras y Caretas' publication (1898-1904), this article studies how the magazine, establishing bonds and ruptures with previous periodicals, carved its way into the press tradition. In this sense, it considers one significant episode: the persistent attack by the old weekly Don Quijote, conducted by Eduardo Sojo, against the new Caras y Caretas. This episode is not merely a curious fact. On the contrary, it brings to the surface, in an exemplary way, changes which were taking place at that time. In the reactions of older publications, such as Don Quijote, we can see the emerging characteristics of the journalistic field at the end of the nineteenth century.