Carlos D. Ramirez
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Carlos D. Ramirez (August 19, 1946 – July 11, 1999) was an American publisher who purchased El Diario La Prensa — the oldest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States — from the Gannett Company in 1989, and succeeded in turning around the paper's longstanding decline in readership and returned it to profitability.[1]
Ramirez was born on August 19, 1946, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and grew up in Corona, Queens. He attended Baruch College, where he graduated with a degree in accounting and finance, and was hired by El Diario La Prensa in 1981 as its comptroller. The Gannett Company had just bought the paper in a deal valued at $10 million. Ramirez worked his way up to serve as the paper's publisher and president.[1]