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La Vanguardia

Summary

La Vanguardia (Catalan: [lə βəŋˈɡwaɾðiə]; Spanish: [la βaŋˈɡwaɾðja], lit. 'The Vanguard') is a Spanish daily newspaper founded in 1881. It is printed in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, also in Catalan.[1] It has its headquarters in Barcelona[2] and is Catalonia's leading newspaper.

La Vanguardia
Front page of La Vanguardia, 21 June 2024
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Grupo Godó
PublisherJavier Godó (Earl of Godó)
EditorJordi Juan
Founded1 February 1881
Political alignmentLiberalism, Catalanism, monarchism[citation needed], centrism
LanguageSpanish (since 1881) and Catalan (since 2011)
HeadquartersBarcelona, Spain
Circulation196,824 (2011)
Sister newspapersMundo Deportivo
Websitewww.lavanguardia.com Edit this at Wikidata

Despite being mostly distributed in Catalonia, La Vanguardia is Spain's fourth-highest circulation among general-interest newspapers, trailing only the three main Madrid-based ones – El País, El Mundo and ABC – all of which are national newspapers with offices and local editions throughout the country.

The newspaper's editorial line leans to the centre of politics and is moderate in its opinions, but Francoist Spain, it followed Francoist ideology. It retains Catholic sensibilities and strong ties to the Spanish nobility through the Godó family.

History and profile

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Beginnings

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First issue of La Vanguardia, 1881

On 1 February 1881 in Barcelona,[3][4] two businessmen from Igualada, 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 Liberal Party that wanted to gain control over the Barcelona city council.

La Vanguardia is one of the oldest papers in Spain as well as the only Catalan newspaper that has survived all the Spanish regime changes, from the restoration of Alfonso XII to the 21st century.[5]

La Vanguardia is part of the Grupo Godó.[6][7] Carlos Godó Valls took over the business in 1931. His death was one year after the death of his wife, Montserrat Muntañola Trinxet, succeeding as president his son Javier Godó Muntañola in 1987.

Title inclusion

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From 1939 to 1978, its title included the word Española to accommodate a better state ideology.[8] The paper was one of two major dailies in Francoist Spain together with ABC.[8] In the late 1970s and 1980s, La Vanguardia had close connections with Convergence and Union alliance.[9]

In 1987, La Vanguardia received the second largest amount of state aid.[10] La Vanguardia was published in berliner format[11][12] until 2 October 2007 when it began to use tabloid format.[13] The daily was awarded the World's Best Designed Newspaper for 1994 by the Society for News Design (SND).[14]

Circulation

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The circulation of La Vanguardia was 221,451 copies in February 1970 and 218,390 copies in February 1975.[15] Five years later, the circulation of the paper was 188,555 copies in February 1980.[15]

In 1993, La Vanguardia had a circulation of 208,029 copies, making it the fifth best-selling newspaper in Spain.[16][17] In 1994 it was the fourth best selling newspaper in the country with a circulation of 207,112 copies.[17][18]

La Vanguardia had a circulation of 205,000 copies in 2001.[19] Its circulation was 203,000 copies in 2003.[20][21] Between June 2006 and July 2007 the daily had a circulation of 209,735 copies.[2] The 2008 circulation of the paper was 213,413 copies.[22] It sold 196,824 copies in 2011.[23]

Language

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The newspaper has printed daily in two parallel editions, one in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, another in Catalan.[24] The Spanish name La Vanguardia is used for both editions (rather than L'Avantguarda, the Catalan translation). Before the birth of the Catalan edition, letters to the editor submitted in Catalan were always left untranslated.

La Vanguardia has been open about their use of an automatic translation tool to produce both language editions, claiming that "an average of 80,000 words are translated from Spanish to Catalan or vice versa each day".[25][26]

Premios Vanguardia

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The Premios Vanguardia[27] known in English as the Vanguardia Awards[28] or La Vanguardia Prizes,[29] are annual awards presented by the newspaper. The awards aim to recognise the work of organisations and people who are high achievers in the social, economic, political, or cultural fields. The jury consists of several prominent people, along with members of La Vanguardia's editorial staff.[30]

The awards were created in 2023 by the Godó Group to celebrate the recent 140th anniversary of the newspaper. The inaugural awards were presented at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia in Barcelona in 2023, and attended by the King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain.[30]

2023

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In the inaugural edition in 2023, they were presented by the King of Spain, to the following winners:[31]

  • Premio Empresaria del Año (Businesswoman of the Year): Sol Daurella
  • Premio Empresario del Año (Businessman of the Year): Marc Puig, CEO of fashion company Puig
  • Premio Innovación (Innovation): Ignacio Cirac, physicist
  • Premio Talento Joven Internacional (Young Talent Award): Bad Gyal, Spanish singer-songwriter
  • Premio Cultura (Culture): Lita Cabellut, painter
  • Premio Impulso Ciudades (Impulse Cities): Grant Dalton, New Zealand sailor
  • Premio In Memoriam: Josep Piqué, Spanish politician, and Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports administrator

2024

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In 2024 they were presented on 16 September by the prime minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez.[28] The winners in each of the six categories were:[32]

Notable contributors

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "'La Vanguardia' se editará también en catalán a partir de mayo". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  2. ^ a b Czepek, Andrea; Hellwig, Melanie; Nowak, Eva (2009). Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe: Concepts and Conditions. Intellect Books. p. 280. ISBN 978-1-84150-243-4. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Spain Media". Country Studies. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  4. ^ Armstrong Crow, John (2005). Spain: The Root and the Flower: an Interpretation of Spain and the Spanish People. University of California Press. p. 411. ISBN 978-0-520-24496-2. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  5. ^ "Más de cien años de historia". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 1 January 2000. Retrieved 9 October 2006.
  6. ^ Castelló, Enric; Domingo, David (2005). "Spanish media facing new media: a challenge to journalists?". International Journal of Iberian Studies. 18 (3). Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  7. ^ "Country Profile: Spain". Institute of Media and Communications Study. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  8. ^ a b Ortiz Gómez, Teresa; Ignaciuk, Agata (2013). ""Pregnancy and labour cause more deaths than oral contraceptives": The debate on the pill in the Spanish press in the 1960s and 1970s". Public Understanding of Science. 24 (6): 658–671. doi:10.1177/0963662513509764. PMID 24259515. S2CID 28696508.
  9. ^ Baumgartner, Frank R.; Chaqués Bonafont, Laura (2014). "All News is Bad News: Newspaper Coverage of Political Parties in Spain" (PDF). Political Communication. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  10. ^ de Mateo, Rosario (1989). "The evaolution of the newspaper industry in Spain, 1939–87". European Journal of Communication. 4. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  11. ^ "The Berliner format". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  12. ^ Harcup, Tony (May 2014). A Dictionary of Journalism. Oxford University Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-19-964624-1. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  13. ^ del-Olmo-Barbero, Jesús; Parratt-Fernández, Sonia (2011). "Typography and colour: A comparative analysis of the free and paid-for newspapers in Spain". Revista Latina de Comunicacion Social (66). Archived from the original on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  14. ^ "World's Best-Designed winners (2006)". Society for News Design. 23 February 2011. Archived from the original on 11 August 2017. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  15. ^ a b Giner, Juan A.; Maxwell, Kenneth (1983). "Journalists, Mass Media, and Public Opinion in Spain, 1938–1982". The Press and the Rebirth of Iberian Democracy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.[ISBN missing]
  16. ^ "The Daily Press". Contenidos. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  17. ^ a b "Facts of Spain". Florida International University. Archived from the original on 21 June 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  18. ^ Alvarez, Jose L.; Muzza, Carmelo; Mur, Jordi (October 1999). "The management publishing industry in Europe" (PDF). University of Navarra. Archived from the original (Occasional Paper No:99/4) on 30 June 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  19. ^ "Top 100 dailies 2000". campaign. 16 November 2001. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  20. ^ Schroeder, Roland (2004). "Interactive Info Graphics in Europe-- added value to online mass media: a preliminary survey". Journalism Studies. 5 (4): 563–570. doi:10.1080/14616700412331296473. S2CID 144687383.
  21. ^ "World Press Trends" (PDF). Paris: World Association of Newspapers. 2004. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  22. ^ Albarran, Alan (10 September 2009). Handbook of Spanish Language Media. Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-135-85430-0. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  23. ^ "Figures covering July 2010 to June 2011 in Spain" (in Spanish). Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión. Archived from the original on 29 April 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  24. ^ "La Vanguardia, una mirada al mundo en dos lenguas". La Vanguardia. 27 February 2011. Archived from the original on 2 March 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  25. ^ "Diez años de 'La Vanguardia' en catalán". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 January 2025. Cada día la redacción y los editores traducen una media de 80.000 palabras de castellano a catalán o al revés. [...] Todo este proceso, claro está, sería imposible sin la ayuda de la traducción automática, nuestra tuneadísima Lucy (provista por Lucy Software), y la revisión humana, imprescindible, en manos de expertos de la edición.
  26. ^ "La Vanguardia en catalán cumple cinco años". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 January 2025. Sin metáforas, Lucy es el software de traducción automática que La Vanguardia utiliza para elaborar las dos ediciones lingüísticas del diario. El nombre es un abreviamiento de la empresa que proporcionó el programa, LucySoftware, y que sigue colaborando con el diario en las actualizaciones periódicas.
  27. ^ Abad, Martí (1 October 2024). "Premios Vanguardia 2024: la opositora rusa Yulia Naválnaya, premio Internacional". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 December 2024.
  28. ^ a b "The President of the Government stresses the importance of protecting the free press to defend democracy with the force of reason and law". lamoncloa.gob.es. 30 September 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
  29. ^ a b "UNESCO awarded for its action to protect the ocean". UNESCO. 30 September 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
  30. ^ a b "Spanish King and Queen attended 'La Vanguardia Awards' ceremony". New My Royals. 30 September 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
  31. ^ "Entrega de la primera edición de los "Premios La Vanguardia"". Castellano (in Spanish). 18 September 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  32. ^ Abad, Martí (1 October 2024). "Premios Vanguardia 2024: la opositora rusa Yulia Naválnaya, premio Internacional". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 December 2024.
  33. ^ "Navalnaya Receives Vanguardia International Award". Navalnaya Receives Vanguardia International Award. 24 May 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024.

Further reading

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