This year has been a boom one for Spanish-language media in the United States, which has seen the birth of new publications as well as mergers and purchases involving large corporations.

Even as the circulation of English-language newspapers continues to decline slightly, the Spanish print media are thriving, both in number and in dollar figures.

According to the magazine Hispanic Business, between 2000 and 2003, the number of U.S. Hispanic publications grew 14.2 percent, spurred in part by the 2000 census’ revelation that the nation’s 38 million Hispanics now constitute its largest minority.

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