''El Español'' is a Spanish

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that started in 2015. It has its headquarters in Avenida de Burgos, 16D, 7º,

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

Comunidad de Madrid The Community of Madrid (; es, Comunidad de Madrid ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and of the Central Plateau (''Meseta Central''). Its capital and largest munici ...

History

In 2014,

Pedro J. Ramírez Pedro José Ramírez Codina (born 26 March 1952), widely known as Pedro J. Ramírez, is a Spanish journalist. When he was appointed to manage ''Diario 16'' at the age of 28, he became Spain's youngest editor of a national newspaper. In 1989 he ...

was dismissed as the director from the newspaper '' El Mundo''. Alongside his daughter María Ramírez Fernández, he founded ''El Español''. The website was opened on 11 January 2015. On 10 January 2015, it raised € from 5,624 people in two months through

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. On 10 April 2015, it became a

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, with a

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of €17 million. In December 2017, ''El Español'' invested in ''Vandal'', a video game website at the time published by Forzáns Inversións SL.

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* {{Official website, https://www.elespanol.com/ Spanish-language newspapers Newspapers established in 2015 Internet properties established in 2014 Daily newspapers published in Spain