Primera Hora (Puerto Rico)

It was established on November 17, 1997, by Carlos Nido and Héctor Olave. Distributed free of charge through a print edition from Monday to Friday, readers can get Primera Hora through subscription, in establishments and at traffic lights throughout the island. Reaching more than 200,000 people with its regionalized distribution, Primerahora.com is also the second most visited local news website in Puerto Rico.{{cite web | last=Media | first=GFR | title=Leading Hispanic Communications Company, Puerto Rico's GFR Media, To Launch Free Multimedia Platform For Young Urban Latinos | website=PR Newswire | date=September 27, 2012 | url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/leading-hispanic-communications-company-puerto-ricos-gfr-media-to-launch-free-multimedia-platform-for-young-urban-latinos-171528401.html | access-date=December 2, 2019}}

Primera Hora also fleshed out questions raised by Puerto Rican politicians in 2002,{{Cite web|url=https://nacla.org/news/reggaeton-nation|title=Reggaeton Nation|website=NACLA}} by publishing research findings and even conducting its own research during a national controversy over {{lang|es|reggaeton}} music and {{lang|es|perreo}}, a popular dance move associated with reggaeton. Primera Hora conducted its minor survey on how dancing {{lang|es|perreo}} to reggaeton music affects youth, specifically young women in Puerto Rico.{{cite book | last=Rivera-Rideau | first=P.R. | title=Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico | publisher=Duke University Press | year=2015 | isbn=978-0-8223-7525-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ns-HCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT77 | access-date=December 2, 2019 | page=77}}

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