El Diario: periódico independiente de la mañana was a newspaper founded in Mexico City on October 13, 1906 by Ernesto Simondetti and Juan Sánchez Azcona.Henry Lepidus, "The History of Mexican Journalism", The University of Missouri Bulletin 29:4:67, Journalism Series No. 49, January 21, 1928 full textLucila E. Flamand Rodríguez, Sensacionalismo periodístico, 1963, p. 14 It had an illustrated Sunday supplement, El Diario Illustrado.
It has been claimed that it was secretly financed by Enrique Creel.Peter Hulme, "Joel's Revolutionary Table: New York and Mexico City in Turbulent Times", Comparative American Studies An International Journal 15:3-4:117-145 (2017)
Its writers included Frías Fernández, Larrañaga Portugal, Torres Palomar, and Jacobo Pratl, as well as the Americans Benjamin De Casseres and a certain O'Brien. Its artist was Álvaro Pruneda, along with the American caricaturist Carlo de Fornaro, who became the artistic director of the Diario Illustrado.
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