El Correo(Spanish pronunciation:[elkoˈreo];lit. 'The Courier') is a leadingdaily newspaperinBilbaoand theBasque Countryof northern Spain. It is among best-selling general interest newspapers in Spain.
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Grupo Vocento |
| Publisher | Bilbao Editorial |
| Editor | José Miguel Santamaría Alday |
| Founded | 1 May 1910(asEl Pueblo Vasco) |
| Political alignment | Spanish unionism Liberal conservatism |
| Language | Spanish |
| Headquarters | Calle Pintor Losada 7,Bilbao,Spain |
| Website | elcorreo |
History and profile
editThe brothers Ybarra y de la Revilla – Fernando, Gabriel and Emilio – foundedEl Pueblo Vasco( "The Basque People" ) on 1 May 1910,[1][2]with Juan de la Cruz as founding editor. The paper supported Vizcaya's youngConservative Partyand itseditorialline wasclerical,Alfonsist monarchist,free pressandBasque regional autonomist.The paper's chief competitor in Bilbao wasLa Gaceta del Norte.
Due to these conservative stances,El Pueblo Vascowas shut down by theSpanish Republicgovernment on 17 July 1936, just before theSpanish Civil War.It was almost a year later, on 6 July 1937, when the paper published again, after the fall of Bilbao; it was joined on newsstands byEl Correo Español,the official newspaper of theFalange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS,the Spanishfascistparty, using the seized presses of the Basque nationalist dailyEuzkadi[citation needed].
By order ofcaudilloFrancisco Franco's government on 13 April 1938, the two papers combined asEl Correo Español-El Pueblo Vasco,owned by El Pueblo Vasco S.A. but controlled by the Falange. During the first 15 years ofFrancoist Spain,El Correoacquired its competitorsEl Noticiero Bilbaíno(1939) andEl Diario Vasco(1945). Upon this last purchase, the company's name was changed to Bilbao Editorial S.A.
The year 1965 sawEl Correomove to its current offices in Calle Pintor Losada, convert totabloidformat and increase the number of pages. In 1976,El Correofor the first time surpassedLa Gaceta del Nortein sales, becoming the best-selling newspaper in northern Spain.
Also around this time, publisherJavier de Ybarra y Bergéwas kidnapped and murdered by rogue elements of the Basque separatist organizationETA.Vaticanhad a share inEl Correountil 1989.[3]
El Correowas the promoter ofLa Vuelta,the yearly bicycle race around Spain, between 1955 and 1978. However, due toETAorganising attacks on the race from the late 1960s, and increasing disorder around the race in the late 1970s during theSpanish transition to democracy,theRoyal Spanish Cycling Federationbanned the race from passing through the Basque Country, resulting inEl Correo's announcement in January 1979 that it would no longer organise the race. It was subsequently promoted by the sports event company Unipublic[4]and did not return to the Basque Country until2011.[5]
Expansion
editThe 1980s brought geographic expansion, asEl Correobegan to publish editions outside the Bilbao metro area and so it purchasedEl Diario Montañés,a newspaper inSantander.The paper now publishes nine local editions: five within the province ofVizcaya,which includes Bilbao, and one each serving the provinces ofÁlava,Guipúzcoa(sharing territory withEl Diario Vasco),Burgos(in the city ofMiranda de Ebro) andLa Rioja.In April 2014,El Correobegan to be published and distributed in theUnited Arab Emirates.[6]
El Correo,El Diario VascoandEl Diario Montañésare now owned byGrupo Vocento,[7]a nationwide communications company that also ownsABCin Madrid[8]andLas Provincias.[9]Theeditor-in-chiefofEl Correois Juan Carlos Martínez Gauna[10]and its publisher is Bilbao Editorial.[2]
The paper is published in tabloid format.[2][11]The daily comic stripDon Celes(byLuis del Olmo,originally published inLa Gaceta del Norte) is now a symbol of the newspaper.
In 2012El Correowas named as theNewspaper of the Yearin the category of regional newspapers by the European Newspapers Congress.[10][11]
Circulation
editThe circulation ofEl Correowas 134,000 copies in 1993.[12]It rose to 138,000 copies in 1994.[2]
Its circulation was 130,042 copies in 2002.[9]It fell to 128,000 copies in 2003.[13]The paper had a circulation of 112,588 copies in 2006.[14]The 2008 circulation of the paper was 118,107 copies.[7]
Notable journalists
editReferences
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- ^"'El Correo', the First Spanish Newspaper in the UAE, is Warmly Welcomed by Eton Institute ".Eton Institute.2 April 2014. Archived fromthe originalon 7 December 2014.Retrieved4 December2014.
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- ^ab"Case Study" El Correo ": Remarkably precise and modern – visual storytelling in Spain".European Newspaper Congress.Archived fromthe originalon 8 December 2014.Retrieved4 December2014.
- ^ab"14th European Newspaper Award"(PDF).Editorial Design.2013. Archived fromthe original(Press Release)on 13 March 2016.Retrieved4 December2014.
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