Buenos Aires Herald stops presses on daily edition after 140 years

(Reuters) - The Buenos Aires Herald published its last daily edition after 140 years on Wednesday, blaming tough economic conditions and a broad shift among readers to digital media. The Herald, which was founded in 1876 by a Scottish resident of Argentina just as waves of European immigrants arrived to settle in the country, will switch to a weekly edition. The paper had called itself the only English language daily newspaper in print in Latin America, "The Herald has been facing difficulties f