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Ideal
Type	Daily newspaper
Founder(s)	Pedro Gómez Aparicio
Editor	Corporación de Medios de Andalucía (Vocento)
Founded	8 May 1932
Headquarters	Peligros (Granada)
Circulation	31,006 copies (2010)
Sister newspapers	La Voz de Almería; Diario de Almería;
ISSN	1132-0117
Website	ideal.es

Ideal is a daily Spanish language newspaper edited and published in Granada.

It forms part of the Corporación de Medios de Andalucía, which in turn belongs to the grupo Vocento.^[2] Founded in 1932 by Editorial Católica, since then it has had a long history. While publication is largely circumscribed to Eastern Andalusia [es], Ideal is distributed in the provinces of Granada, Almería and Jaén, where it has local editions.^[3] At present it is the most widely subscription based newspaper in these provinces and one of the main newspapers in Andalusia, reaching in 2010 about 164,000 daily readers according to el Estudio general de medios (EGM).^[4]

History

Ideal had in its origins in the Catholic and conservative daily La Gaceta del Sur, which had disappeared in 1931. The Catholic hierarchy of Granada decided to launch a new newspaper, counting on the collaboration of journalists such as Ángel Herrera Oria y de Pedro Gómez Aparicio.^[5] The newspaper went to the streets for the first time on May 8, 1932.^[6] It was edited by Editorial Católica.^[7] In these early years of existence was a clearly confessional and conservative newspaper,^[8] and its main journalistic rival was the liberal El Defensor de Granada.^[9] In the context of the 1930s, Ideal was the best manufactured newspaper in the province,^[10] surpassing others published in this period.^[b] During this era, it highlighted the work of Ramón Ruiz Alonso,^[10] the paper's typographer.^[12] During the years of the Second Republic the publication, which reached a circulation of 9000 copies,^[13] according to CEDA.^[14]

On 10 March 1936 a group of right wing supporters ^[c] set fire to the offices of Ideal, whose printing press was destroyed and the premises reduced to the foundations. ^[16] As a consequence, the newspaper did not circulate for some months. In early July, the newspaper returned to Granada, shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

Supplements

On Sundays, like many other newspapers in the Grupo Vocento, Ideal distributes the supplement XLSemanal. It is a general journal, with reports and collaborations from writers like Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Juan Manuel de Prada.

Directors

El diario ha sido dirigido desde su fundación por los siguientes periodistas:^[17]

Name	Duration	Notes
Pedro Gómez Aparicio	1932-1934	Founder
Fernando de Eguía Martínez	1934-1936
Ernesto la Orden Miracle	1936
Santiago Lozano García	1936-1938	Civil War
Aquilino Morcillo Herrera	1938-1952
Santiago Lozano García	1952-1971
Melchor Saiz-Pardo Rubio	1971-2002	Acquisition by Vocento.
Eduardo Peralta de Ana	2002–Present

Notes

^ Lema adoptado desde 1979. Anteriormente, desde 1967, era "Diario regional de Andalucía Oriental".
^ Tras Ideal y El Defensor de Granada se publicaban el republicano La Publicidad y el independiente Noticiero Granadino.^[11]
^ El historiador Hugh Thomas, citando a Ian Gibson, señala que este incendio fue obra de derechistas, que lo habrían realizado a modo de provocación.^[15]

References

^ Reig García 2011, p. 610.
^ Reig García 2011, pp. 200, 348.
^ Reig García 2011, p. 348.
^ Reig García 2011, p. 436.
^ Ruiz Sánchez 2005, p. 27.
^ Blanco Martín 2014, p. 451.
^ Ruiz Sánchez 2005, p. 69.
^ Ruiz Sánchez 2005, p. 28.
^ Ruiz Sánchez 2005, p. 25.
^ ^a ^b Ruiz Sánchez 2005, p. 29.
^ Reig García 2011, pp. 114, 119, 140.
^ Gibson 1981, p. 152.
^ Reig García 2011, p. 119.
^ Checa Godoy 1989, p. 202.
^ Thomas 1976, p. 27.
^ Gibson 1981, p. 60.
^ Checa Godoy, Antonio. "IDEAL". Andalupedia. Retrieved 6 August 2012.

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