Far West in Basque language: the pioneering journalism of the Basque-American weekly newspaper California’ko Eskual Herria (1893-1898)

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https://doi.org/10.12795/RiCH.2022.i18.09

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Ethnic Press, Newspapers, Journalistic Genres, Basque Language, Basque-American Diaspora

Abstract

The first newspaper published entirely in Basque and that lasted over time was not published in the Basque Country but in the United States of America. California'ko Eskual Herria, a four-page weekly newspaper published in Los Angeles from 1893 to 1898, practiced a highly informative journalism different from the more ideological journalism practiced in the same language by the bilingual press of the Basque Country. This research has analyzed the journalistic model of the Basque-American weekly based mainly on the genres used in its informative texts. The most used genre was the news, numerous chronicles were also published but no texts that could be classified as interviews or reports have been detected.

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2022-06-27

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Murua Uria, I. (2022). Far West in Basque language: the pioneering journalism of the Basque-American weekly newspaper California’ko Eskual Herria (1893-1898). RIHC. Revista Internacional De Historia De La Comunicación, (18), 142–162. https://doi.org/10.12795/RiCH.2022.i18.09

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No. 18 (2022): The press as a historical agent in the face of nationalism, decentralization and autonomy (20th century)

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Received 2021-12-09
Accepted 2022-01-26
Published 2022-06-27
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