Público (Spain)

Público

Front page, 1 June 2009
Type	Online newspaper
Owner(s)	Display Connectors, SL.
Editor	Ana Pardo de Vera
Founded	26 September 2007 (2007-09-26)
Political alignment	Left-wing Republicanism
Ceased publication	(print) 24 February 2012 (2012-02-24)
Headquarters	Calle Caleruega, 102, Madrid, Spain
Circulation	7,592,279 unique visitors each month (online)[1]
Website	www.publico.es

Público (transl. 'Public') is a Spanish online newspaper. It was published as a print daily newspaper between 2007 and 2012. The print version folded but the newspaper continues online.

History and profile

Público was established in September 2007.^[2][3] The founder is Jaume Roures, head of Mediapro.^[2] One of only two national left-wing papers (the other being elDiario.es),^[4][5] the paper had a harder-left editorial line than El País.^[6] Público also aimed at a younger readership.^[7] The paper was two-thirds the length of its competitors and its price, initially only 50 cents, was less than half. The paper's original press run was 250,000 daily.^[8]

After several years of financial losses, and facing a €9 million deficit, Público folded its print edition in February 2012.^[7][6] In its last year, the paper was the ninth-largest general-interest newspaper in Spain and the fifth-largest of those headquartered in Madrid.^[9]

The parent company Mediapro^[5] undertook to continue to publish the website publico.es,^[6] which as of 2014 was still active as an online newspaper.^[1][10]

Público and CTXT, a Spanish independent online publication, began a collaborative editorial agreement in June 2016.

Editors

• Ignacio Escolar (2007–09)
• Félix Monteira [es] (2009–10)^[11]
• Jesús Maraña [es] (2010–12)
• Carlos Enrique Bayo [es] (2012–16)
• Ana Pardo de Vera (since 2016)

See also

• List of newspapers in Spain
• Nazanin Armanian

References

1. Público sigue creciendo y marca otro récord. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
2. "Country Profile: Spain". Institute of Media and Communications Study. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
3. Rosario de Mateo; Laura Bergés; Anna Garnatxe (2010). "Crisis, what crisis? The media: business and journalism in times of crisis". TripleC. 8 (2). Retrieved 18 December 2014.
4. Andy Robinson (21 February 2013). "Political Corruption and Media Retribution in Spain and Greece". The Nation. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
5. Esteban Romero-Frías; Liwen Vaughan (2012). "Exploring the Relationships Between Media and Political Parties Through web Hyperlink Analysis: The Case of Spain". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 63 (5): 967–976. doi:10.1002/asi.22625. hdl:10481/48881.
6. Giles Tremlett (24 February 2011). "Spanish Newspaper Público to Stop Printing". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
7. "Spain. Freedom of the Press 2013". Freedom House. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
8. Victoria Burnett (22 October 2007). "A New Daily Starts in Spain, Aiming for the Young, Left-Leaning Reader". The New York Times.
9. Figures covering July 2010 to June 2011 in Spain Archived 18 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
10. Anne Penketh; Philip Oltermann; Stephen Burgen (12 June 2014). "European newspapers search for ways to survive digital revolution". The Guardian. Paris, Berlin, Barcelona. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
11. "Público" cambia de director (Spanish)

External links

• Público website