JOURNALISTS FROM PERFIL PROTEST AGAINST SUDDEN CLOSING OF THE NEWSPAPER, 1998-08-03 (photo)

Some 100 journalists and photographers from the Argentine newspaper Perfil demonstrate August 3 against the company's owner, Jorge Fontevecchia (picture in the poster on wall), demanding that the paper be kept open, or that all employees be properly compensated for the loss of their jobs. Perfil, owned by one of Argentina's biggest publishing groups, said it failed to make headway in a newspaper market dominated by Clarin, the biggest selling daily in the Spanish-speaking world, and announced it's sudden demise last July 31 after fewer than three months on the market. RR/ME