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La Vanguardia

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La Vanguardia
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TypeDaily newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Grupo Godó
PublisherJavier Godó (Earl of Godó)
EditorMàrius Carol
Founded1 February 1881
Political alignmentLiberalism, Catalanism, monarchism[citation needed], centrism
LanguageSpanish (since 1881) and Catalan (since 2011)
HeadquartersBarcelona, Spain
Circulation196,824 (2011)
Sister newspapersMundo Deportivo
Websitewww.lavanguardia.com Edit this at Wikidata
For the Argentine newspaper, see La Vanguardia (Argentina).

La Vanguardia (Catalan: [lə βəŋˈɡwaɾðiə]; Spanish: [la βaŋˈɡwaɾðja], Spanish for "The Vanguard") is a Spanish daily newspaper, founded in 1881. It is printed in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, also in Catalan (Spanish copy is automatically translated into Catalan). It has its headquarters in Barcelona[1] and is Catalonia's leading newspaper.

Despite being mostly distributed in Catalonia, La Vanguardia has Spain's fourth-highest circulation among general-interest newspapers, trailing only the three main Madrid dailies – El País, El Mundo and ABC, all of which are national newspapers with offices and local editions throughout the country.

Its editorial line leans to the centre of politics and is moderate in its opinions, although in Francoist Spain it followed Francoist ideology and to this day has Catholic sensibilities and strong ties to the Spanish nobility through the Godó family.

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Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the fifth most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, the Ruhr area, Madrid, and Milan. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range.

Catalonia

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

Madrid

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El País

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El Mundo (Spain)

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ABC (newspaper)

ABC (newspaper)

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Francoist Spain

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History and profile

First issue of La Vanguardia, 1881
First issue of La Vanguardia, 1881

La Vanguardia's newspaper history began in Barcelona on 1 February 1881[2][3] when two businessmen from Igualada, Carlos and Bartolomé Godó, first published the paper. It was defined as a Diario político de avisos y notícias (Political Newspaper of Announcements and News), intended as a means of communication for a faction of the Liberal Party that wanted to gain control over the Barcelona city council.

On 31 December 1887, the paper published its last edition as a party organ, and the next day, 1 January 1888, the first day of the Universal Exposition of Barcelona, it presented a new, politically independent format with morning and afternoon editions.

It is one of the oldest papers in Spain, and is the only Catalan newspaper that has survived all the Spanish regime changes, from the restoration of Alfonso XII to the 21st century.[4]

La Vanguardia is part of the Grupo Godó.[5][6] Carlos Godó Valls took over the business in 1931. His death was one year after the death of his wife, Montserrat Muntañola Trinxet, succeeding as President his son Javier Godó Muntañola in 1987.

From 1939 to 1978 its title included the word Española to better accommodate the new state ideology.[7] The paper was one of two major dailies in Francoist Spain together with ABC.[7] In the late 1970s and 1980s La Vanguardia had close connections with Convergence and Union alliance.[8]

In 1987 La Vanguardia received the second largest amount of state aid.[9]

La Vanguardia was published in berliner format[10][11] until 2 October 2007 when it began to use tabloid format.[12] The daily was awarded the World's Best Designed Newspaper for 1994 by the Society for News Design (SND).[13]

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Igualada

Igualada

Igualada is a municipality in the province of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It is located on the left bank of the Anoia River and at the western end of the Igualada-Martorell-Barcelona Railway. Igualada is the capital and central market of the Anoia comarca, a rich agricultural and wine-producing district. The population, as of 2009, is 38,918.

Liberal Party (Spain, 1880)

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The Liberal Party, originally called Liberal Fusionist Party until 1885, was a Spanish political party created in 1880 by Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. With the Conservative Party of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, it formed a two-party system of alternating governments, the turno, which characterised the Spanish Restoration during the late 19th century and the early 20th century.

Francoist Spain

Francoist Spain

Francoist Spain, or the Francoist dictatorship, was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo. After his death in 1975, Spain transitioned into a democracy. During this time period, Spain was officially known as the Spanish State.

Convergence and Union

Convergence and Union

Convergence and Union was a Catalan nationalist electoral alliance in Catalonia, Spain. It was a federation of two constituent parties, the larger Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) and its smaller counterpart, the Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC). It was dissolved on 17 June 2015.

Society for News Design

Society for News Design

The Society for News Design (SND), formerly known as the Society of Newspaper Design, is an international organization for professionals working in the news sector of the media industry, specifically those involved with graphic design, illustration, web design and infographics.

Circulation

The circulation of La Vanguardia was 221,451 copies in February 1970 and 218,390 copies in February 1975.[14] Five years later the circulation of the paper was 188,555 copies in February 1980.[14]

In 1993 La Vanguardia had a circulation of 208,029 copies, making it the fifth best selling newspaper in Spain.[15][16] In 1994 it was the fourth best selling newspaper in the country with a circulation of 207,112 copies.[16][17]

La Vanguardia had a circulation of 205,000 copies in 2001.[18] Its circulation was 203,000 copies in 2003.[19][20] Between June 2006 and July 2007 the daily had a circulation of 209,735 copies.[1] The 2008 circulation of the paper was 213,413 copies.[21] It was 196,824 copies in 2011.[22]

Language

The newspaper prints daily in two parallel editions, one in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, another one in Catalan.[23] The Spanish name La Vanguardia is used for both editions (rather than L'Avantguarda, the Catalan translation).

Before the birth of the Catalan edition, letters to the editor submitted in Catalan were always left untranslated.

Notable contributors

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John Carlin (journalist)

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Julià Guillamon

Julià Guillamon

Julià Guillamon is a Catalan writer and literary critic. He was born in Barcelona in 1962.

Quim Monzó

Quim Monzó

Joaquim Monzó i Gómez, also known as Quim Monzó, is a contemporary Spanish writer of novels, short stories and discursive prose, mostly in Catalan. In the early 1970s, Monzó reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and East Africa for the Barcelona newspaper Tele/eXpres. He was one of the members of the Catalan literary collective, Ofèlia Dracs. He lives in Barcelona and publishes regularly in La Vanguardia.

Fernando Krahn

Fernando Krahn

Fernando Krahn was a Chilean cartoonist and plastic artist. A celebrated cartoonist, his works were published in Esquire, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Reporter. In 1973 he was forced to flee his native country Chile to escape persecution after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. Upon moving to Spain, he had over 40 children's books published, which earned him the SM Ediciones' International Illustration Prize in 2001.

Pedro Madueño

Pedro Madueño

Pedro Madueño Palma is a Spanish photographer. Graphic reporter for newspaper La Vanguardia (Barcelona) since 1983–2015. In 2015 he is appointed Deputy to the Director of La Vanguardia with responsibility for the image area of this newspaper. President of the jury of the Godó Prize for Photojournalism of the Conde de Barcelona Foundation. He has been associate professor at the University Pompeu Fabra, since 2008 he teaches graduate students at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is the author of the official image of Prince Felipe de Borbón y Grecia between 2002 and 2010, and he is also the author in 2010 of the official image of the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Artur Mas. He photographed Salvador Dalí during the last three years of the artist's life.

Sergi Pàmies

Sergi Pàmies

Sergi Pàmies is a Spanish writer, translator, journalist and television and radio presenter. He is the son of the writer Teresa Pàmies and the former general secretary of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, Gregorio López Raimundo. In his works he employs humor and parody mixing them with themes of failure and desperation. He translated works by Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Agota Kristof, Daniel Pennac and Amélie Nothomb. He received several awards for his literary works.

Pilar Rahola

Pilar Rahola

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Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Xavier X. Sala i Martín is a Spanish-born Catalan-American economist and professor of economics at Columbia University. Sala i Martin is one of the leading economists in the field of economic growth.

Source: "La Vanguardia", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, January 16th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vanguardia.

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Further Reading

ABC (newspaper)

El País

El Mundo (Spain)

La Stampa

Blick

Público (Portugal)

Expresso (newspaper)

Diário de Notícias

La Razón (Madrid)

Solidaridad Obrera (periodical)

Avui

Gaziel

Grupo Godó
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References
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Further reading
  • Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp 334–37
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