''Diario de Sevilla'' is a Spanish newspaper founded in 1999 in

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

. It is part of the communications group

Grupo Joly Grupo Joly is a Spanish publishing company which started operating in 1867 in Andalusia, southern Spain, publishing Diario de Cádiz. Grupo Joly sold 100,000 copies a day in 2002 and reached 400,000 readers daily. Publications Grupo Joly's publ ...

. Its circulation as of 2013 was 23,172. The current ''Diario'' is not to be confused with a previous periodical of the same title that existed from 1882 to 1901.

History

''Diario de Sevilla'' was founded during a spurt in the growth of local newspapers. Seville featured, as local newspapers, the ''ABC de Sevilla'' (an ''

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'' subsidiary) y ''El Correo de Andalucía''. On 10 January 1999 the national newspaper '' El Mundo'' added to its Andalucian edition a supplement dedicated exclusively to Seville. In June 1999 ''ABC de Sevilla'' inaugurated its plant on the

Isla de la Cartuja ''Isla de la Cartuja'' (; ) is an island in the Guadalquivir River at Seville, Spain. The island's name derives from the cloistered monastery (Cartuja) located on the site, the '' Monasterio de Santa María de las Cuevas'', where Cristopher Colu ...

. Between 1999 and 2000, ''ABC'' also created dailies in

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Huelva Huelva (, ) is a city in southwestern Spain, the capital of the province of Huelva in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is between two short rias though has an outlying spur including nature reserve on the Gulf of Cádiz coast. The rias ...

and Córdoba.

Foundation

''Diario de Sevilla'' was founded on 28 February 1999 by the Grupo Joly. This company was then led by Federico Joly, who already owned ''

Diario de Cádiz ''Diario de Cádiz'' is a Spanish-language newspaper published in Cádiz, Spain. The paper serves the province of Cádiz Cádiz is a province of southern Spain, in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is the souther ...

'', ''Diario de Jerez'' and ''Europa Sur''. His stated purpose was to create a neutral, apolitical paper with local character. The first President was Manuel Clavero Arévalo and the first Director was Manuel Jesús Florencio. The paper has been awarded some thirty SND congress and Malofiej awards for its infographics. At the 2006 SND (''Society for News Design'') it was ranked best designed newspaper in the world, and in 2007 it was a finalist in the same contest. In the first decade of the 21st century Grupo Joly founded or acquired other local periodicals. In 2000 it founded el ''El Día de Córdoba''; in 2002 it acquired ''Huelva Información'' (founded in 1984); in 2003 founded ''Granada Hoy''; in 2004 founded ''Málaga Hoy'', and, in 2007, ''

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''.

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External links

* {{Official, http://www.diariodesevilla.es Daily newspapers published in Spain Publications established in 1999 Spanish-language newspapers