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Crónica is a newspaper published in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Founded on July 29, 1963, by publisher Héctor Ricardo García, it became well known for its oversized headlines and yellow press approach; as García explained: "we needed a strident daily, with large and shocking headlines, like the kind one sees in Central America, because our papers were too placid."
Crónica, which had reached a daily circulation of 800,000 and rivaled Clarín as the nation's leading news daily, was shuttered by President Isabel Perón in 1975, and though it was reopened in 1977, it never regained its former prominence. Crónica, whose logo is Firme junto al pueblo ("Firmly with the people"), is published with three editions: morning, evening and night, and its average daily circulation in 2006 was 58,432.
'''Crônica '''( Portuguese for ''chronicle) ''is a Brazilian form of short writings about daily topics, published in newspaper or magazine columns. Crônicas are usually written in an informal, observational and sometimes humourous tone, as in an intimate conversation between writer and reader. Writers of crônicas are called ''cronistas. ''It is considered to be a purely Brazilian literary genre.
Newspaper crônicas had their inception in the 19th century, with the development of the press in Brazil, inspired by the French Journal des Débats; they flourished in the mid of the 20th century, with the country's urbanization process, musing about daily happenings and becoming more informal in nature. Crônicas, despite their ephemeral nature, are usually compiled in book anthologies.
Some authors known by their crônicas are Machado de Assis, Rubem Braga, Fernando Sabino, Paulo Mendes Campos, Rachel de Queirós and Luis Fernando Veríssimo.