Editing Vea

{{short description|Puerto Rican gossip magazine}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox magazine
| image_file = vearevista.jpg 
| image_size = 175px 
| image_caption = Cover page of ''Vea'''s December 19–24, 2004, issue
| editor     = Josephine Rodríguez
| frequency  = Weekly
| category   = [[Celebrity]], [[Human interest story|human interest]], [[news]]
| company    = [[Editorial Chic, Inc.]]
| firstdate  = 1969
| finaldate  = 2009
| country    = [[Puerto Rico]] 
| language   = [[Spanish language|Spanish]]
| website    = [http://www.veavea.com www.veavea.com]
| issn       = 0738-7628
}}
'''''Vea''''' was a [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] celebrity gossip magazine that was published weekly from 1969<ref>{{cite web|title=Revistas en la Cultura Popular |url=http://adnpr.net/revistas-en-la-cultura-popular/|work=Archivo Digital Nacional de Puerto Rico|access-date=13 April 2020|language=es|date=28 May 2017}}</ref> to 2009. It was founded by Enrique Pizzi Galindo and Roberto García.

As a periodical that reported on the lives and activities of many of the island's entertainment, sports, and political personalities, the magazine was no stranger to controversy. In 1994, a discovery by a ''Vea'' employee caused a wide international controversy, when the employee came across some documents that Puerto Rico was the actual birthplace of famous Mexican singer, [[Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri|Luis Miguel]], and not [[Mexico]], as it had been widely believed prior to the discovery.

The magazine also featured film and theater reviews, TV-guide listings, hit-song lyrics, and recipes.  It also conducted TV show popularity surveys to select the most widely viewed TV shows on Puerto Rican television, known as "Encuesta Vea".  Participants had to fill a coupon published inside the magazine, list on it their favorite TV shows, and mail it in for a chance to win prizes.  The magazine ran many other contests, including a raffle to win one of the historic-period gowns worn by actress [[Von Marie Mendez]] in "[[Telemundo's]]" acclaimed Puerto Rican telenovela "[[Tanairi]]".

Noted ''Vea'' journalists included Belén Martínez Cabello, Roberto Ramos-Perea (the magazine's theater critic) and Helda Ribera-Chevremont, among others.

Other competitor "small-format" Puerto Rican entertainment gossip magazines included ''[[Teve Guía]]'' (Puerto Rico's version of ''[[TV Guide (magazine)|TV Guide]]''), ''Artistas'' (1977-1994, founded by Jose Antonio Mellado and Miguel A.Lopez Ortiz), and ''Estrellitas'' (Founded in 1975 by Hugo del Cañal and José Antonio Mellado), a small-format version of ''Estrellas'', another Puerto Rican entertainment gossip magazine focused on film, television, music and theater.

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[[Category:Weekly magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Celebrity magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Defunct magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Magazines established in 1969]]
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[[Category:Magazines published in Puerto Rico]]
[[Category:Spanish-language magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Defunct Spanish-language magazines]]


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