Only an Uruguayan national may be the redactor or responsible editor or manager of a newspaper, magazine, or periodical published in Uruguay.
CAPITULO II - LIBERTADES DE PRENSA Y DE IMPRENTA [...]
Article 6 (Qualities required to be a responsible editor or manager).
To be able to be an editor or responsible manager of a communication medium, you need:
1º Be no less than twenty-one years of age and not be in any of the cases that determine the suspension of the exercise of citizenship in accordance with Chapter IV of Section III of the Constitution of the Republic.
2º Effectively and truly integrate the writing of the press body and exercise decision-making authority or, if appropriate, its rejection.
3º Not enjoying privileges or immunities.
The conditions established in this article will be required of those responsible for broadcasting and television stations, in any of their forms, sound or audiovisual recordings, but not of the other editors or managers, nor of the editor-in-chief or director, if so. there is and it is not the responsible editor, in accordance with this law. [...]" (Ley N° 16099 de Prensa - Libertad en los Medios de Comunicacion de 4 Noviembre 1989 [google translate])
Ley N° 16099 de Prensa - Libertad en los Medios de Comunicacion de 4 Noviembre 1989 [google translate]
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