Jose Marti, precursor of 98, maximum exponent of XIX century journalism

Abstract

Jose Marti was the best informed journalist of the nineteenth century, in addition to the more complete because he played all journalistic genres. Much of the work of this Cuban writer is scattered in many newspapers and magazines. This article conducts a tour of the various stages as a journalist. In its infancy Marti realizes that the word was the best way to develop their vocation and published his first poems in 1868 in a local newspaper. In its initial stage develops a purely political journalism. Here in Mexico, began a period of Total journalism. In the United States shall work more intense journalistic continental scale, publishing in 1880 his first article in English in the journal The Hour. In the last stage, Martí journalism reached its summit with the Cuban Revolutionary Party newspaper, Patria, to be his masterpiece.