Correio Braziliense

The Correio Braziliense is a daily newspaper in Brazil. The paper was first published on 21 April 1960. Its founder was Assis Chateaubriand. The paper has its headquarters in Brasília. The name came from the historical Correio Braziliense, published in London from 1808 to 1822 by Hipólito José da Costa, a Liberal Brazilian exile. It was the first newspaper of Brasilia, born together with the new federal capital on April 21, 1960. The inaugural edition totaled 108 pages, most of them in the notebook commemorating the inauguration of the city. In making the decision to build a city that would become the new capital of the Republic, displacing it from Rio de Janeiro, President Juscelino Kubitschek obtained from the owner of the Associated Diaries, Assis Chateaubriand, skeptical of the magnitude of the project, the promise that if the work was carried out at the scheduled time would have accompanied it, recording the birth, a newspaper of his chain. The new newspaper would in fact become the main printed diary of the Chain of Associated Diaries. The circulation of Correio Braziliense, which in 1963 was 1,500 copies, reached 24,500 copies in 1969.