| Categories | News magazine |
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| Frequency | Weekly |
| Founder | Jaime Campmany |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Final issue | 2013 |
| Company | Intereconomía Corporation |
| Country | Spain |
| Based in | Madrid |
| Language | Spanish |
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| Conservatism in Spain |
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Época was a Spanish weeklynews magazine published inMadrid,Spain, from 1985 to 2013.[1]
Established byJaime Campmany in 1985,Época was aconservative publication byIntereconomía Corporation.[1][2] TheUS Department of State also described the magazine as a conservative publication in 2000.[3] The headquarters of the magazine was in Madrid.[4]
In 1994Época had a circulation of 67,000 copies.[5]
Época becameLa Gaceta'sSunday magazine in 2009,[6] butLa Gaceta was defunct by Intereconomía in 2013.[7] It had among its contributorsJulián Marías, Ramón Pi,Pilar Urbano,Emilio Romero,Manuel Alcántara andRicardo de la Cierva.[2]
Although described by its publisher as "a reference,"[1]Época was the focus of several controversies in the 2000s. In 2008, it alleged thatInfanta Elena was trying to annul her marriage toJaime de Marichalar in that Marichalar usedcocaine.[8] In the following year, the magazines accusedMaría Teresa Fernández de la Vega ofelectoral fraud for including her name after the legal period of the election.[9] Both Marichalar and de la Vega opened legal actions against the magazine.[9][10]
