Interviú

Interviú was established in 1976{{cite book|title=Western Europe 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M9QYndAPmuQC&pg=PA593

|year=2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-152-0|page=592}} in Barcelona{{cite book|title=The New Spaniards|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6yCOGxruB0YC&pg=PT454|first=John|last=Hooper|publisher=Penguin UK|date=2006|isbn=9780141927749|page=454}} by a group led by Antonio Asensio Pizarro{{cite book

|author=Eamonn Rodgers|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EUuEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA421

|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-78859-0|page=421}}{{cite book|author=Alan Albarran|title=Handbook of Spanish Language Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4uOPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA20|year=2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-85430-0|page=20}} and Josep Llario.{{cite journal|author=Ilan Stavans|title=This Way to the Ovens, Señoras y Señores: Holocaust Cartoons in Latin America|journal=The Journal of Holocaust Research|year=2019|volume=33|issue=3|page=217|doi=10.1080/25785648.2019.1631575}} It was first published on 22 May 1976.{{cite web|author=Asuncion Bernardez|title=The Mass Media|url=http://eprints.ucm.es/10582/1/the_mass_media.pdf|work=Graves retrasos a - E-Prints Complutense|access-date=6 May 2015|format=Book chapter|year=1991|archive-date=18 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518065239/http://eprints.ucm.es/10582/1/the_mass_media.pdf|url-status=dead}} The publisher of the magazine was Grupo Zeta{{cite news|author=Alan Riding|title=New Competition in Spain's Media|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/29/business/new-competition-in-spain-s-media.html|access-date=29 October 2014|work=The New York Times|date=29 May 1989}} which was also founded by Asensio Pizarro in 1976.{{cite news|title=Muerte de un Editor (Death of an editor)|url=http://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2001/CR288/CR288-14.html|access-date=13 April 2015|work=El Mundo|date=22 April 2001|language=es}} The magazine was published weekly on Mondays, and its headquarters was in Madrid.{{cite book|title=The Europa World Year: Kazakhstan - Zimbabwe|location=New York; London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C&pg=PA3908|year=2004|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-85743-255-8|page=3906}}

The magazine was famous for publishing semi-nude and nude photographs of the rich and famous, sometimes using paparazzi photoshoots or posed pictorials. In this last case the subjects were normally women,{{cite journal|author=Maria E. Nilsson|title=Against the grain|journal=Journalism|date=November 2004|volume=5|issue=4|pages=440–457|doi=10.1177/1464884904044204|doi-access=free}} typically Spanish actresses and singers. It also published interviews with politicians and articles on political and economic scandals and it featured opinion pieces by famous writers.{{cite news|author=Stanley Meisler|title=Lives of Rich, Famous Keep Spain Enthralled|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-06-wr-3932-story.html|access-date=13 April 2015|work=Los Angeles Times|date=6 November 1990}} Another notable inclusion was news photographs that were considered too violent or gory for use by the daily press.

Its last issue was on 8 January 2018.{{cite news|title=Racy Spanish magazine born after fall of Franco to close|work=The Local |url=https://www.thelocal.es/20180109/racy-spanish-magazine-born-after-fall-of-franco-to-close/|access-date=8 September 2021|agency=AFP|date=9 January 2018}} Grupo Zeta explained this was due to financial reasons and changes in the way the public consumes news.{{Cite news

|url=https://politica.elpais.com/politica/2018/01/08/actualidad/1515411044_174991.html|title=Las revistas 'Tiempo' e 'Interviú' dejan de publicarse|agency=EFE|date=8 January 2018|work=El País|access-date=8 January 2018|language=es}}

The circulation of Interviú was about 1 million copies both in 1977 and in 1978.{{cite book|author=Juan A. Giner|editor=Kenneth Maxwell|title=The Press and the Rebirth of Iberian Democracy|date=1983|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, CT|chapter=Journalists, Mass Media, and Public Opinion in Spain, 1938–1982|isbn=978-0-3132-3100-1}} It rose to three million copies in 1979.{{cite book|author1=Richard Gunther|author2=José Ramón Montero|author3=José Ignacio Wert|editor1=Richard Gunther|editor2=Anthony Mughan|title=Democracy and the Media: A Comparative Perspective|date=1999|publisher=Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials|location=Barcelona|url=http://ddd.uab.cat/pub/worpap/1999/hdl_2072_1288/ICPS176.txt?iframe=true&width=80%&height=80%|chapter=The Media and Politics in Spain}} The magazine had a circulation of 122,644 copies in 2003.{{cite news|title=Grupo Zeta|url=http://www.infoamerica.org/grupos/zeta_1.htm|access-date=13 April 2015|work=Infoamerica|language=es}}

Its circulation was 94,461 copies in 2008 and 62,614 copies in 2009.{{cite web|title=World magazine trends 2010/2011|url=http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Spain.pdf|work=FIPP|access-date=13 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621140534/http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Spain.pdf|archive-date=21 June 2012}} The circulation of the weekly was 54,046 copies in 2011.{{cite web|title=Interviú|url=http://gca-international.co.uk/uploads/Interviu5429218f1c072.pdf|work=GCA International|access-date=13 April 2015}}

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