ABC (newspaper)
Spanish newspaper
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Compact |
Owner(s) | Grupo Vocento |
Founder(s) | Torcuato Luca de Tena y Álvarez-Ossorio |
Publisher | Catalina Luca de Tena |
Editor | Bieito Rubido Ramonde |
Founded | 1 January 1903 ; 120 years ago ( 1903-01-01 ) |
Political alignment | Conservatism , monarchism , Catholicism |
Language | Spanish |
Headquarters | Juan Ignacio de Tena 7, Madrid , Spain |
Country | Spain |
Circulation | 243,154 (2011) |
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ABC ( Spanish pronunciation: [aˈβeθe] ) is a Spanish national daily newspaper. Founded in 1903, it is the second-largest general-interest newspaper in Spain , number one in Madrid , and the oldest newspaper still operating in Madrid. [ not verified in body ] Along with El Mundo and El País , it is one of Spain's three newspapers of record .
History and profile
ABC was first published in Madrid on 1 January 1903 [1] [2] by Torcuato Luca de Tena y Álvarez-Ossorio . [3] [4] The founding publishing house was Prensa Española, which was led by the founder of the paper, Luca de Tena. [4] The paper started as a weekly newspaper , turning daily in June 1905. [5] In 1928 ABC had two editions, one for Madrid and the other for Seville . [4] [6] The latter was named ABC de Sevilla . [4]
On 20 July 1936, shortly after the Spanish Civil War began, ABC in Madrid was seized by the republican government, which changed the paper's politics to support the Republicans . The same year Blanco y Negro , a magazine, became its supplement . [7] The ABC printed in Seville was supportive of the Nationalists . In 1939 ABC in Madrid was given back to its original owners by Francisco Franco . [3] During this period the paper was one of two major dailies in the country together with La Vanguardia Española . [2]
In the 1990s the publisher of ABC was Editorial Española. [8] The paper later moved from its historic landmark offices in Madrid by Paseo de la Castellana , which is now a shopping mall. The paper is part of Grupo Vocento , [9] [10] which also owns El Correo Español , El Diario Vasco , La Verdad and Las Provincias , among others. [11]
In the late 1970s and 1980s ABC had close connections with first Popular Alliance and later Popular Party . [12]
ABC publishes in compact -sized stapled sheets, noticeably smaller than the loose tabloid format favoured by most Spanish dailies, including El País and El Mundo . Its cover distinctively features a full-size picture.
Editorial stance
ABC is known for generally supporting conservative political views [13] and defending the Spanish monarchy . [14] The paper has also a right-wing stance. [15] Its director since 1983, Luis María Ansón , left the paper in 1997 [8] to found another daily, La Razón , which initially catered to even more conservative readers.
Historically, it was noted in its heavy use of photography, and the front page is typically a large photo taking up to one third of the area. Recently, it has been recognized for its coverage of Spanish culture and arts. [3]
Archives
On 25 September 2009, ABC made its complete archives, dating back to 1903, available online, giving modern readers a chance to see contemporaneous news about the Spanish Civil War or Francisco Franco 's death.
Circulation and readership
In February 1970 ABC had a circulation of 212,536 copies. [16] It was 178,979 copies in February 1975, [16] 171,382 copies in 1976, 145,162 copies in 1977 and 126,952 copies in 1978. [1] The circulation of the paper was 135,380 copies in February 1980. [16]
The 1993 circulation of ABC was 334,317 copies, making it the second-best-selling newspaper in Spain. [17] [18] In 1994 it was again the second-best-selling newspaper in the country with a circulation of 321,571 copies. [18] [19] In the period of 1995–1996 the paper had a circulation of 321,573 copies, making again it the second-best-selling paper in the country. [20]
The circulation of ABC was 292,000 copies in 2001 [21] and 262,874 copies in 2002. [11] The paper had a circulation of 263,000 copies in 2003, being the fourth best-selling newspaper in the country. [22] [23] Based on the findings of the European Business Readership Survey ABC had 5,685 readers per issue in 2006. [24] Between June 2006 and July 2007 the daily had a circulation of 230,422 copies. [5] The 2008 circulation of the paper was 228,258 copies. [25] It was 243,154 copies between July 2010 and June 2011. [26]
References
- 1 2 Katrin Voltmer (2006). Mass Media and Political Communication in New Democracies . Psychology Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-415-33779-3 .
- 1 2 Teresa Ortiz-Gómez; Agata Ignaciuk (2013). " "Pregnancy and labour cause more deaths than oral contraceptives": The debate on the pill in the Spanish press in the 1960s and 1970s". Public Understanding of Science . 24 (6): 658–671. doi : 10.1177/0963662513509764 . ISSN 0963-6625 . PMID 24259515 . S2CID 28696508 .
- 1 2 3 "ABC" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. I: A-Ak - Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2010. p. 14 . ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8 .
- 1 2 3 4 Jacob Fox Watkins (2014). "Not Just "Franco 's Spain" - The Spanish Political Landscape During Re-Emergence Through the Pact of Madrid" . Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies . 39 (1). doi : 10.26431/0739-182X.1167 . ISSN 0739-182X . Archived from the original on 3 February 2018 . Retrieved 6 May 2015 .
- 1 2 Andrea Czepek; Melanie Hellwig; Eva Nowak (2009). Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe: Concepts and Conditions . Intellect Books. p. 275. ISBN 978-1-84150-243-4 .
- ↑ Gabriel Jackson (2012). Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939 . Princeton University Press. p. 555. ISBN 978-1-4008-2018-4 .
- ↑ Xon de Ros; Geraldine Hazbun (2014). A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies . Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 195. ISBN 978-1-85566-286-5 .
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- ↑ Enric Castelló; David Domingo (2005). "Spanish media facing new media: a challenge to journalists?" . International Journal of Iberian Studies . 18 (3): 181–200. doi : 10.1386/ijis.18.3.181_1 . ISSN 1364-971X . Retrieved 3 December 2014 .
- 1 2 David Ward (2004). "A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries" (PDF) . Dutch Media Authority . Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2014 . Retrieved 19 February 2014 .
- ↑ Frank R. Baumgartner; Laura Chaqués Bonafont (2014). "All News is Bad News: Newspaper Coverage of Political Parties in Spain" (PDF) . Political Communication . 32 (2): 268–291. doi : 10.1080/10584609.2014.919974 . ISSN 1058-4609 . S2CID 9157498 . Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2014 . Retrieved 4 December 2014 .
- ↑ Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska; et al. (2010). Comparative Media Systems: European and Global Perspectives . Budapest: Central European University Press. ISBN 9786155211898 . Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
- ↑ Richard Gunther; Jose Ramon Montero; Jose Ignacio Wert (2000). "The media and politics in Spain" . In Richard Gunther; Anthony Mughan (eds.). Democracy and the Media: A Comparative Perspective . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521777438 . Retrieved 27 November 2014 .
- ↑ Dan Beeton (22 July 2013). "Spanish Newspaper ABC Runs a "Completely False" Report on Venezuela, Again" . CEPR. Archived from the original on 20 April 2015 . Retrieved 29 September 2014 .
- 1 2 3 Juan A. Giner (1983). "Journalists, Mass Media, and Public Opinion in Spain, 1938-1982" . In Kenneth Maxwell (ed.). The Press and the Rebirth of Iberian Democracy . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015.
- ↑ "The Daily Press" . Contenidos . Retrieved 19 February 2015 .
- 1 2 "Facts of Spain" . Florida International University. Archived from the original on 21 June 2013 . Retrieved 23 February 2015 .
- ↑ Alvarez, Jose L.; Mazza, Carmelo; Mur, Jordi (October 1999). "The management publishing industry in Europe" (PDF) . IESE Occasional Papers . University of Navarra. 99 (4). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 June 2010 . Retrieved 27 April 2015 .
- ↑ Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration & Commerce . SAGE Publications. 1998. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4462-6524-6 .
- ↑ Adam Smith (15 November 2002). "Europe's Top Papers" . campaign . Retrieved 7 February 2015 .
- ↑ Roland Schroeder (2004). "Interactive Info Graphics in Europe-- added value to online mass media: a preliminary survey". Journalism Studies . 5 (4): 563–570. doi : 10.1080/14616700412331296473 . ISSN 1461-670X . S2CID 144687383 .
- ↑ "World Press Trends" (PDF) . World Association of Newspapers . Paris. 2004 . Retrieved 15 February 2015 .
- ↑ Craig Carroll (2010). Corporate Reputation and the News Media: Agenda-setting Within Business News Coverage in Developed, Emerging, and Frontier Markets . Routledge. p. 177. ISBN 978-1-135-25244-1 .
- ↑ Alan Albarran (2009). Handbook of Spanish Language Media . Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-135-85430-0 .
- ↑ Figures covering July 2010 to June 2011 in Spain Archived 29 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
Further reading
- Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980). pp. 33–36.
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