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' (; , Spanish for "The Vanguard") is a Spanish
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, founded in 1881. It is printed in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, also in
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(Spanish copy is automatically translated into Catalan). It has its headquarters in
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and is
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's leading newspaper. Despite being mostly distributed in Catalonia, ' has Spain's fourth-highest circulation among general-interest newspapers, trailing only the three main
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dailies – ', ' and ''
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'', 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
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it followed Francoist ideology and to this day has Catholic sensibilities and strong ties to the Spanish nobility through the Godó family.


History and profile

''La Vanguardia'''s newspaper history began in Barcelona on 1 February 1881 when two businessmen from
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, 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
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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. ''La Vanguardia'' is part of the Grupo Godó.
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took over the business in 1931. His death was one year after the death of his wife,
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, succeeding as President his son
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in 1987. From 1939 to 1978 its title included the word ''Española'' to better accommodate the new state ideology. The paper was one of two major dailies in
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together with ''ABC''. In the late 1970s and 1980s ''La Vanguardia'' had close connections with
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alliance. In 1987 ''La Vanguardia'' received the second largest amount of state aid. ''La Vanguardia'' was published in
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until 2 October 2007 when it began to use
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. The daily was awarded the World's Best Designed Newspaper for 1994 by the
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(SND).


Circulation

The circulation of ''La Vanguardia'' was 221,451 copies in February 1970 and 218,390 copies in February 1975. Five years later the circulation of the paper was 188,555 copies in February 1980. In 1993 ''La Vanguardia'' had a circulation of 208,029 copies, making it the fifth best selling newspaper in Spain. In 1994 it was the fourth best selling newspaper in the country with a circulation of 207,112 copies. ''La Vanguardia'' had a circulation of 205,000 copies in 2001. Its circulation was 203,000 copies in 2003. Between June 2006 and July 2007 the daily had a circulation of 209,735 copies. The 2008 circulation of the paper was 213,413 copies. It was 196,824 copies in 2011.


Language

The newspaper prints daily in two parallel editions, one in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, another one in
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.''La Vanguardia'', una mirada al mundo en dos lenguas
''La Vanguardia''. 27 February 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
The Spanish name ' is used for both editions (rather than ', the Catalan translation). Before the birth of the Catalan edition,
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submitted in Catalan were always left untranslated.


Notable contributors

* John Carlin *
Julià Guillamon Julià Guillamon is a Catalan writer and literary critic. He was born in Barcelona in 1962. Guillamon studied Catalan philology at the University of Barcelona. Since 1994, he has been publishing weekly reviews in the newspaper ''La Vanguardi ...
*
Quim Monzó Joaquim Monzó i Gómez (born 15 March 1952), 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 ...
* Fernando Krahn * Pedro Madueño *
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* Pilar Rahola *
Xavier Sala-i-Martin Xavier X. Sala i Martín (also ''Sala-i-Martin'' in English) 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.http://w ...


See also

*
Gaziel Agustí Calvet Pascual (; Sant Feliu de Guíxols; October 7, 1887 – Barcelona; April 12, 1964), known as Gaziel (), was a Spanish journalist, writer and publisher. Life and works Before the Spanish Civil War He studied humanities in Barcelon ...


References


Further reading

* Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. ''The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers'' (1980) pp 334–37


External links


''La Vanguardia''
newspaper website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vanguardia 1881 establishments in Spain Catalan-language newspapers Newspapers published in Barcelona Daily newspapers published in Spain Publications established in 1881 Spanish-language newspapers Spanish news websites