Rosalind Bresnahan, Editor, Latin American Perspectives
“El Mostrador and Primera Línea: The Limits of Progressive On-line Journalism in Chile”

El Mostrador and Primera Linea are Chilean newspapers published only on-line started in 1999 and 2000 respectively. They represent efforts to create a daily information source on the left in the absence of a print daily. The paper will discuss their origins and the economic and political constraints limiting their development, including the closure of Primera Linea in January 2003.