El Nuevo Día Orlando publishes final edition

This is the front page of today’s El Nuevo Día – the final edition of Orlando’s only Spanish-language daily. (I cropped the bottom fourth which had an ad.)

The paper shuts down just shy of its 5-year anniversary.

Founded on September 2, 2003, it was published by Puerto Rico’s Ferré-Rangel family, which also owns two newspapers in Puerto Rico: El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora.

A slumping economy was blamed for the decision, which cost 50 employees their jobs.