44 years for the Portuguese Tribune, now commonly known as Tribuna Portuguesa

The newspaper Tribuna Portuguesa is published every other week (twice monthly, around the 1st and the 15th of each month) and is now headquartered where it originated in San Jose, after a 20-year residency in the San Joaquim Valley, namely the city of Modesto, has just commemorated 44 years of existence. It is the only Portuguese newspaper published on the United States West Coast. The first newspaper in California was Voz Portuguesa (Portuguese Voice), founded in 1884.

The Portuguese tribune was founded by João Brum, who dedicated his life and soul to the newspaper. During the first years, the newspaper had a full-fledged delegation in Artesia and correspondents throughout the state. The newspaper had several owners and directors until the Avila family bought it in 2003.

The longest-running newspaper in California was the weekly Jornal Português, which came out of a fusion of several other newspapers, but with the title Jornal Português, published between 1932 and 1997. A 65-year-long run under that name. Since the first publication in 1969 of the Portuguese Tribune, other newspapers have been published in California, such as Notícia (News) 1985-1986, Portugal-USA 1986-1987, Novidade in Tulare from 1984 until 1989, Luso-Americano in California 1992-1995, Portuguese-American Chronicle 1997-2006, and Lusitania News in 2006.

José Avila has been at the helm of the newspaper since 2003, and in 2015, his son Miguel Ávila, a very successful executive in the health management field, took over as editor-in-chief.

Novidades, by Bruma Publications (PBBI-Fresno State), comes from the namesake of Tulare and Kings counties newspaper Novidade. We congratulate the Tribuna Portuguesa for serving our Diaspora in California and the entire West Coast.

In 2024, our community will commemorate the 140th anniversary of the first Portuguese language newspaper in California, and PBBI at Fresno State will host a series of events.