Arturo Oscar Schaerer Heisecke[1] (October 7, 1907 - December 17, 1979) was a Paraguayan businessman, publisher and journalist.

He was a grandson of Santiago Schaerer, a Swiss colonizer who hailed originally from Vordemwald, Switzerland and of Christian Heisecke, a native of Hamburg, Germany, a consul of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and The Netherlands in Paraguay.

On December 31, 1925, his father Eduardo Schaerer founded the newspaper La Tribuna, which thereafter and for more than five decades would be the badge of the Paraguayan press.

Under General Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship, La Tribuna continued to exist under similar circumstances and was constantly threatened.

In 1953, all this difficult and arduous work for an independent press and opposition to totalitarian regimes in which was immersed Paraguay earned Arturo Schaerer and his newspaper the oldest international journalism award, the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University, New York.