La prensa en la provincia de Antioquia un largo trasegar: : del periodismo oficial hacia el independiente y partidista

The article presents a socio-historical journey of how the main newspapers emerged in the province of Antioquia during the first half of the 19th century, analyzing their various stages of development, starting with the arrival of the printing press and the first newspapers during the Independence process. , as well as, the configuration of elite sectors linked to the acquisition of the press and the journalistic function as a mechanism of social and political formation that allowed them to consolidate a social status within the province. Likewise, it shows the role of newspapers as means of disseminating the government, of configuring an Antioquia "identity", and, finally, the stage of the independent and partisan press, a time in which the partisan debate and a series of references typical of the revolutionary process in France in 1848 are disseminated.