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ABC
Front page, 2 June 2009
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact
Owner(s)Grupo Vocento
Founder(s)Torcuato Luca de Tena y Álvarez-Ossorio
PublisherCatalina Luca de Tena
EditorBieito Rubido Ramonde
Founded1 January 1903;121 years ago(1903-01-01)
Political alignmentConservatism,monarchism,Catholicism
LanguageSpanish
HeadquartersJuan Ignacio de Tena 7,Madrid,Spain
CountrySpain
Circulation243,154 (2011)
Websiteabc.es
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ABC(Spanish pronunciation:[aˈβeθe]) is a Spanish nationaldaily newspaper.Along withEl MundoandEl País,it is one of Spain's threenewspapers of record.

History and profile

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ABCwas first published inMadridon 1 January 1903[1][2]byTorcuato 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 aweekly newspaper,turning daily in June 1905.[5]In 1928 ABC had two editions, one for Madrid and the other forSeville.[4][6]The latter was namedABC de Sevilla.[4]

On 20 July 1936, shortly after theSpanish Civil Warbegan,ABCin Madrid was seized by the republican government, which changed the paper's politics to support theRepublicans.The same yearBlanco y Negro,a magazine, became itssupplement.[7]TheABCprinted in Seville was supportive of theNationalists.In 1939ABCinMadridwas given back to its original owners byFrancisco Franco.[3]During this period the paper was one of two major dailies in the country together withLa Vanguardia Española.[2]

ABCpublishes incompact-sized stapled sheets, noticeably smaller than the loosetabloidformat favoured by most Spanish dailies, includingEl PaísandEl Mundo.Its cover distinctively features a full-size picture. In the late 1970s and 1980s,ABChad close connections with firstPopular Allianceand laterPopular Party.[8]In the 1990s, the publisher ofABCwas Editorial Española.[9]The paper later moved from its historic landmark offices in Madrid byPaseo de la Castellana,which is now a shopping mall. The paper is part ofGrupo Vocento,[10][11]which also ownsEl Correo Español,El Diario Vasco,La VerdadandLas Provincias,among others.[12]

Editorial stance

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ABCis known for generally supportingconservativepolitical views,[13]and defending theSpanish monarchy.[14]The paper has also aright-wingstance.[15]Its director since 1983,Luis María Ansón,left the paper in 1997;[9]he founded 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

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On 25 September 2009,ABCmade its complete archives, dating back to 1903, available online, giving modern readers a chance to see contemporaneous news about the Spanish Civil War orFrancisco Franco's death.

Circulation and readership

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In February 1970ABChad 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 ofABCwas 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 ofABCwas 292,000 copies in 2001[21]and 262,874 copies in 2002.[12]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 SurveyABChad 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]

See also

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References

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  1. ^abKatrin Voltmer (2006).Mass Media and Political Communication in New Democracies.Psychology Press. p. 19.ISBN978-0-415-33779-3.
  2. ^abTeresa 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.ISSN0963-6625.PMID24259515.S2CID28696508.
  3. ^abc"ABC".Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. I: A-Ak - Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2010. p.14.ISBN978-1-59339-837-8.
  4. ^abcdJacob 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(inactive 26 August 2024).ISSN0739-182X.{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of August 2024 (link)
  5. ^abAndrea Czepek; Melanie Hellwig; Eva Nowak (2009).Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe: Concepts and Conditions.Intellect Books. p. 275.ISBN978-1-84150-243-4.
  6. ^Gabriel Jackson (2012).Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939.Princeton University Press. p. 555.ISBN978-1-4008-2018-4.
  7. ^Xon de Ros; Geraldine Hazbun (2014).A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies.Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 195.ISBN978-1-85566-286-5.
  8. ^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.ISSN1058-4609.S2CID9157498.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 7 December 2014.Retrieved4 December2014.
  9. ^abSandra Truscott; Maria J. Garcia (1998).A Dictionary of Contemporary Spain(PDF).New York: Routledge.ISBN9781579581138.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 22 December 2015.Retrieved23 April2015.
  10. ^Andreu Casero-Ripollés; Jessica Izquierdo-Castillo (2013)."Between Decline and a New Online Business Model: The Case of the Spanish Newspaper Industry"(PDF).Journal of Media Business Studies.10(1): 63–78.doi:10.1080/16522354.2013.11073560.hdl:10234/92211.ISSN1652-2354.S2CID73667009.Retrieved1 December2014.
  11. ^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.ISSN1364-971X.Retrieved3 December2014.
  12. ^abDavid Ward (2004)."A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries"(PDF).Dutch Media Authority.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 12 August 2014.Retrieved19 February2014.
  13. ^Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska; et al. (2010).Comparative Media Systems: European and Global Perspectives.Budapest: Central European University Press.ISBN9786155211898.Archived fromthe originalon 2 April 2015.
  14. ^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.ISBN9780521777438.Retrieved27 November2014.
  15. ^Dan Beeton (22 July 2013)."Spanish Newspaper ABC Runs a" Completely False "Report on Venezuela, Again".CEPR. Archived fromthe originalon 20 April 2015.Retrieved29 September2014.
  16. ^abcJuan 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 fromthe originalon 15 February 2015.
  17. ^"The Daily Press".Contenidos.Retrieved19 February2015.
  18. ^ab"Facts of Spain".Florida International University. Archived fromthe originalon 21 June 2013.Retrieved23 February2015.
  19. ^Alvarez, Jose L.; Mazza, Carmelo; Mur, Jordi (October 1999)."The management publishing industry in Europe"(PDF).IESE Occasional Papers.99(4). University of Navarra. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 30 June 2010.Retrieved27 April2015.
  20. ^Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration & Commerce.SAGE Publications. 1998. p. 7.ISBN978-1-4462-6524-6.
  21. ^Adam Smith (15 November 2002)."Europe's Top Papers".campaign.Retrieved7 February2015.
  22. ^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.ISSN1461-670X.S2CID144687383.
  23. ^"World Press Trends"(PDF).World Association of Newspapers.Paris. 2004.Retrieved15 February2015.
  24. ^Craig Carroll (2010).Corporate Reputation and the News Media: Agenda-setting Within Business News Coverage in Developed, Emerging, and Frontier Markets.Routledge. p. 177.ISBN978-1-135-25244-1.
  25. ^Alan Albarran (2009).Handbook of Spanish Language Media.Routledge. p. 25.ISBN978-1-135-85430-0.
  26. ^Figures covering July 2010 to June 2011 in SpainArchived29 April 2011 at theWayback Machine,Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión. Retrieved 28 January 2012.

Further reading

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  • Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher.The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers(1980). pp. 33–36.
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  • ABC.es– official online version ofABC
  • TheABC– Article in English discussingABC
  • ABConX
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