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Spain: Newspapers & Broadcasting

A Change in the Landscape of Spain: New Mass Media After the Crisis of 2008

The informative treatment of the 2008 global crisis that has particularly affected Spain, together with the new social networks and the new cybernetic media serving an increasingly proactive social community, has led to countless new newspapers, radios, blogs, televisions and other communication media. However, at the same time the consequences of that global crisis have had dramatic effects in the Spanish mass media business. According to the Informe Anual de la Profesión Periodísticas 2015 during the period 2008-2015, 375 media business have closed in Spain including newspapers, magazines, television, radio networks and press agencies.
 
Because libraries, archives and research centers in the United States may not be aware of that dramatic new shift and transformation that is currently taking place in Spanish mass media, we are organizing in this section a comprehensive list of new and traditional media present today (2018) in Spain. Our goal is to help institutional selectors to identify the changes presently ocurring in Spain.

El Observatorio de Nuevos Medios is a database that lists "medios" in digital and print format in Spanish language. Does not include "medios" in other Iberian pensinsula languages. To understand their definition of a "medio," you can consult their FAQ page. You can consult a partial selection from the 867 "medios" present today in Spain.
 
Below, you can read a selected list of articles that discuss new media in Spain.
  • Núria Almiron . Pluralismo en Internet: el caso de los diarios digitales españoles de información general sin referente impreso. Ámbitos. Nº 15 - Año 2006 (pp.9-31)
  • Pescador, Mercedes . Auge y debilidad de la Prensa Gratuita en España: ¿Quién teme a los gratuitos?. Revista de Comunicación, Arte y Literatura. Año 2006, Mayo 31

Digital News & Newspapers Born After the 2008 Crisis
2021

  • The Objetive | https://theobjective.com
    November 16, 2021 - to date; only version digital, free
    Type: Digital newspaper | Headquarters: Madrid | Coverture: National |
    Point of view: centre-wing, |
    Note: "Diario digital independiente de tipo generalista centrado en publicar noticias exclusivas y opiniones libres. Nuestra sede está en Madrid y nos dirigimos a toda España sin perder de vista el resto del mundo"
  • El Periódico de España | https://www.epe.es ISSN: 2792-5951
    October 12, 2021 - to date; print and digital
    Type: Digital and print newspaper | Headquarters: Madrid | Coverture: National |
    Point of view: Left-wing, |
    Note: Published by Prensa Ibérica five times a week (Monday to Thusrday)

2017

2016

2015

  • ctxt | http://ctxt.es/
    January 1, 2015 - to date; only version digital with weekly updates + a montly magazine
    Type: Digital newspaper | Headquarters: Madrid | Coverture: National |
    Point of view: Left-wing, Alternativa Press. |
    Note: Since January 9, ctxt (also known as CTXT or Contexto or Revista Contexto) publish and send to subscribers a montly magazine in print called El Dobladillo. more info -- Wiki in Spanish|
    more info -- Wiki in English|
  • OKdiario.com -- El sitio de los inconformistas | http://okdiario.com/
    September, 2015 - to date, only version digital
    Type: Digital newspaper | Headquarters: Madrid | Coverture: National |
    Point of view: Right-wing, Liberalism, Conservatism, Spanish nationalism
    more info -- Wiki in Spanish|
  • El Español | https://www.elespanol.com/
    October 3, 2015 - to date, only version digital
    Type: Digital newspaper | Headquarters: Madrid | Coverture: National |
    Point of view: Right-wing, Liberalism
    Note: In 2014 Pedro J. Ramírez was dismissed as the director from the newspaper El Mundo, and with his daughter María Ramírez Fernández they founded El Español
    more info -- Wiki in Spanish|
  • Diario 16: el diario de la segunda transición | http://diario16.com/ --- ISSN: 2445-1002
    January, 2015 - to date, only version digital + a montly magazine in print after march 4, 2016.
    Type: Digital newspaper | Headquarters: Seville | Coverture: National |
    Point of view: Centre-left. |
    Note: Diario 16: el diario de la segunda transición is the heir of the newspaper Diario 16 published between 1976 and 2001. The new Diario 16 was created by journalists that left Cambio 16 due to editorial changes in this political magazine
  • ESDiario.com | http://www.esdiario.com/
    2015 - to date, only version digital
    Type: Digital newspaper | Headquarters: Madrid | Coverture: National with editions in Valencia and Andalucia |
    Point of view: Right-wing, Liberalism, Conservatism |
    Note: ESDiario.com is the heir of the the weekly El Semanal Digital (1999-2015). Both were cretaed by Antonio Martín Beaumont
    more info -- Wiki in Spanish|

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

Digital News & Newspapers Born Around the Turn of the 21st Century

2001

2000

1998

1996

Well-Known Newspapers

1989

  • El Mundo | http://www.elmundo.es/ --- ISSN: 1697-0179
    October 23, 1989 - to date; Also version and archive digital: open source | archive in pdf by subscription
    Type: Daily newspaper | country's newspapers of record | Headquarters: Madrid |
    Coverture: National with 5 Regional editions + 3 American editions, Mexico (Spanish) and Brazil (portuguese) + 1 english edition |
    Point of view: Centre-right. Liberal | Circulation: 266,294 (2011) |
    more info -- Wiki in English | Wiki in Spanish Electronic archived in:
    Factiva (from January 2, 1995 through current
    Lexis Nexis (from June 1, 2002 through current)

1976

  • El Pais | http://www.elpais.com/

    May 4, 1976 - to date; Also version and archive digital: open source | archive in pdf by subscription
    Type: Daily newspaper | country's newspapers of record | Headquarters: Madrid |
    Coverture: National with 5 Regional editions + 3 American editions, Mexico (Spanish) and Brazil (portuguese) + 1 english edition |
    Point of view: Centre-left. Democratic | Circulation: 324 814 (2011) |
    more info -- Wiki in English | Wiki in Spanish Electronic archived in:
    Factiva (from January 5, 2001 through current)
    Lexis Nexis (from April 19, 1996 through current)

1903

  • ABC | http://www.abc.es/

    January 1, 1903 - to date; Also version and archive digital in pdf: open source
    Type: Daily newspaper | country's newspapers of record  | Headquarters: Madrid | Coverture: National with Regional editions|
    Point of view: Right wing, Conservatism, Nationalist, Monarchism. | Circulation: 243.154 (2011) |
    more info -- Wiki in English | Wiki in Spanish Electronic archived in:
    Factiva (from May 16, 1997 through current)
    Lexis Nexis (From May 2, 2007 through October 2016 - No longer updated)

Newspapers Born Print Before 1990 with Current Web Versions

1986

  • Expansión | www.expansion.com --- ISSN: 1576-3323 | 1576-3331 | 1698-7136 | 2483-9434 digital
    May 1, 1986 - to date; Also version and archive (Since 2000) in digital format: open source
    Type: Daily newspaper } Headquarters: Madrid 
    Coverture: National with editions in 3 autonomous community of Spain: Catalan, Valencian and Basque Country 
    Point of view: Economical, financial and business affairs | Circulation: 160.000 (2008) | 55,971 (2012) 
    more info -- Wiki in English 
    Electronic archived in:
    Factiva (from August 15, 1996 through current (print edition); since December 2, 2013 through current (electronic edition),
    Lexis Nexis (from May 28, 2010 through current),
    Biblioteca Nacional de España, Hemeroteca (only open in local computers)

1978

1982

  • De Verdad Digital | https://deverdaddigital.com/ | ISSN: 1139-7772

    October 1, 1982 - to date; print (currently biweekly)+ version digital |
    Type: Digital newspaper | Headquarters: Madrid | Coverture: National |
    Point of view: Left wing, Comunism. Aligned with UCE (Unificación Comunista de España)
    Note: This publication supersedes Tribuna Obrera (1968) and Arma del Pueblo (1973)

1930

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