''Ya'' (meaning " ightNow") was a Spanish newspaper published by

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from 1935 to 1996. Its trademark was bought for a website that launched in July 2008.

History

Among the founders of ''Ya'' was Cardinal

Ángel Herrera Oria Ángel Herrera Oria (19 November 1886 – 28 July 1968) was a Spanish journalist and Roman Catholic politician and later a cardinal. He established the Instituto Social León XIII (later renamed Fundación Pablo VI) to promote the social doct ...

. The newspaper, which began in January 1935 during the

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, was the most popular newspaper in

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by the end of

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in 1975, with a circulation of 177,000. ''Ya'' had been met with suspicion by Francoist authorities for its acceptance of the Republic, and from 1953 to 1959 it had internal conflicts over whether to support or oppose the new regime. The latter faction were expelled from the publication. After censorship was loosened in 1966, ''Ya'' supported further democratic reform. The newspaper shut down in 1996, and ten years later its entire back catalogue was archived by

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. ''Ya'' was the second-oldest national newspaper in Spain at the time of its dissolution, having had several changes of ownership since 1988. Its final editor Rafael González blamed its decline not on its content, but rather on poor business decisions that led to the loss of its real estate. The newspaper's final owner, Aurelio Delgado of '' Diario de Ávila'' was attacked in the final editorial for the newspaper's demise, as he had failed in an attempt to obtain a 500 million peseta investment from the

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. Domingo López, former president of Banco de Valladolid and owner of the defunct ''El Imparcial'', offered to buy the trademark on condition that the Community inject the necessary credit, which was rejected. On 1 July 2008, the newspaper was relaunched in a digital format. Some of its former employees believed this was to compete with

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, a conservative website. By September, the

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was secured for this new version, and editor Rafael Nieto predicted that a weekly magazine would be launched within a year, and a physical daily would circulate within five years. He said that the right-wing dailies '' La Razón'' and ''ABC'' had moved to the centre alongside the People's Party on social issues, and that there was a gap in the market for a Catholic daily.

References

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