Carlos D. Ramirez

Who is Carlos D. Ramirez?

Carlos D. Ramirez 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.

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.