The Buenos Aires Herald, a storied English-language newspaper lauded for its coverage of Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship, will close after more than 140 years of publication, the newspaper has announced.

“Herald’s staff have been informed that the newspaper is closing,” the paper said in a Twitter message on Monday night, along with a photo of the front page of its 140th anniversary edition from last September.

Herald's staff have been informed that the newspaper is closing.

Our front page when we turned 140 on September 15, 2016. pic.twitter.com/5or01KqDy6 — Buenos Aires Herald (@BAHeraldcom) July 31, 2017

The move comes less than a year after the paper, which once called itself the only English-language daily in Latin America, switched to a weekly print edition, blaming tough economic conditions and a broad shift among readers to digital media.

The Buenos Aires Herald, closely associated with Argentina’s British and, in later years, US community, won praise for its coverage of the “disappeared” – people who were forcibly abducted, tortured and murdered by the state during the dictatorship – when much of the country’s media stayed silent.

The Buenos Aires Herald survived 140 years but couldn't survive 140 characters. — Taos Turner (@taos) August 1, 2017

The Herald is majority-owned by the Indalo Group conglomerate, which also owns local financial paper Ambito Financiero.

