Público (Spain)

{{Infobox newspaper

| name = {{lang|es|Público}}

| logo = Público (Spain) logo.svg

| image = 20090601 publico frontpage.jpg

| image_size = 150px

| caption = Front page, 1 June 2009

| type = Online newspaper

| foundation = {{start date|2007|9|26|df=y}}

| ceased publication = (print) {{end date|2012|2|24|df=y}}

| political = {{Plain list|

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| owners = Display Connectors, SL.

| headquarters = Calle Caleruega, 102, Madrid, Spain

| editor = Ana Pardo de Vera

| website = {{Official URL}}

| circulation = 7,592,279 unique visitors each month (online)[http://www.ferransala.com/publico-sigue-creciendo-y-marca-otro-record-76-millones-de-usuarios-segun-certifica-ojd/ Público sigue creciendo y marca otro récord]. Retrieved 26 December 2014.

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Público ({{translation|'Public'}}) is a Spanish online newspaper. It was published as a print daily newspaper between 2007 and 2012. The print version folded but the newspaper continues online.

History and profile

Público was established in September 2007.{{cite web|title=Country Profile: Spain|url=http://www.mediadb.eu/en/data-base/eu-laenderportraets/spanien.html|publisher=Institute of Media and Communications Study|access-date=21 February 2015}}{{cite journal|author1=Rosario de Mateo|author2=Laura Bergés|author3=Anna Garnatxe|title=Crisis, what crisis? The media: business and journalism in times of crisis|journal=TripleC|date=2010|volume=8|issue=2|url=http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/viewFile/212/195|access-date=18 December 2014}} The founder is Jaume Roures, head of Mediapro. One of only two national left-wing papers (the other being elDiario.es),{{cite news|author=Andy Robinson|title=Political Corruption and Media Retribution in Spain and Greece|url=http://www.thenation.com/article/173044/political-corruption-and-media-retribution-spain-and-greece#|access-date=9 August 2014|work=The Nation|date=21 February 2013}} the paper had a harder-left editorial line than El País. Público also aimed at a younger readership.{{cite web|title=Spain. Freedom of the Press 2013|url=https://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2013/spain#.VKWbT2SsXRA|publisher=Freedom House|access-date=1 January 2015}} The paper was two-thirds the length of its competitors and its price, initially only 50 cents, was less than half. The paper's original press run was 250,000 daily.{{cite news|author=Victoria Burnett|title=A New Daily Starts in Spain, Aiming for the Young, Left-Leaning Reader|date=22 October 2007|newspaper=The New York Times}}

After several years of financial losses, and facing a €9 million deficit, Público folded its print edition in February 2012. In its last year, the paper was the ninth-largest general-interest newspaper in Spain and the fifth-largest of those headquartered in Madrid.[http://www.ojd.es/OJD/Portal/diarios_ojd/_4DOSpuiQo1Y_FOivPcLIIA Figures covering July 2010 to June 2011 in Spain] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918183338/http://www.ojd.es/OJD/Portal/diarios_ojd/_4DOSpuiQo1Y_FOivPcLIIA |date=18 September 2010 }}, Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión. Retrieved 28 January 2012.

The parent company Mediapro{{cite journal|author1=Esteban Romero-Frías|author2=Liwen Vaughan|title=Exploring the Relationships Between Media and Political Parties Through web Hyperlink Analysis: The Case of Spain|journal=Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology|date=2012|volume=63|issue=5|doi=10.1002/asi.22625|pages=967–976|hdl=10481/48881|hdl-access=free}} undertook to continue to publish the website publico.es,{{cite news|author=Giles Tremlett|title=Spanish Newspaper Público to Stop Printing|date=24 February 2011|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/feb/24/newspaper-publico-stop-printing|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|access-date=26 February 2012}} which as of 2014 was still active as an online newspaper.{{cite news|author1=Anne Penketh|author2=Philip Oltermann|author3=Stephen Burgen|title=European newspapers search for ways to survive digital revolution|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/12/european-newspapers-digital-revolution|access-date=7 January 2015|work=The Guardian|date=12 June 2014|location=Paris, Berlin, Barcelona}}

Público and CTXT, a Spanish independent online publication, began a collaborative editorial agreement in June 2016.

Editors

{{Column list|

Ignacio Escolar (2007–09)
{{ill|Félix Monteira|es}} (2009–10)[http://www.elperiodicodearagon.com/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=469276 "Público" cambia de director] (Spanish)
{{ill|Jesús Maraña|es}} (2010–12)
{{ill|Carlos Enrique Bayo|es}} (2012–16)
Ana Pardo de Vera (since 2016)

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