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 Front page ofLa Vanguardia, 21 June 2024 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Grupo Godó |
| Publisher | Javier Godó (Earl of Godó) |
| Editor | Jordi Juan |
| Founded | February 1, 1881; 144 years ago (1881-02-01) |
| Political alignment | Liberalism,Catalanism,monarchism[citation needed],centrism |
| Language | Spanish (since 1881) andCatalan (since 2011) |
| Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain |
| Circulation | 196,824 (2011) |
| Sister newspapers | Mundo Deportivo |
| ISSN | 1133-4940 (print) 2462-3415 (web) |
| Website | www |
La Vanguardia (Catalan:[ləβəŋˈɡwaɾðiə];Spanish:[laβaŋˈɡwaɾðja],lit. 'The Vanguard') is a Spanishdaily newspaper founded in 1881. It is printed in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, also inCatalan.[1] It has its headquarters inBarcelona[2] and isCatalonia's leading newspaper.
Despite being mostly distributed in Catalonia,La Vanguardia is Spain's fourth-highest circulation among general-interest newspapers, trailing only the three mainMadrid-based ones –El País,El Mundo andABC – 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 duringFrancoist Spain, it followed the Francoist ideology. It retains Catholic sensibilities and strong ties to the Spanish nobility through the Godó family.
On 1 February 1881 in Barcelona,[3][4] two businessmen fromIgualada, Carlos and Bartolomé Godó, first published the paper. It was defined as aDiario político de avisos y notícias (Political Newspaper of Announcements and News), intended as a means of communication for a faction of theLiberal 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 therestoration 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 sonJavier Godó Muntañola in 1987.
From 1939 to 1978, its title included the wordEspañola to accommodate a better state ideology.[8] The paper was one of two major dailies inFrancoist Spain together withABC.[8] In the late 1970s and 1980s,La Vanguardia had close connections withConvergence and Union alliance.[9]
In 1987,La Vanguardia received the second largest amount of state aid.[10]La Vanguardia was published inberliner format[11][12] until 2 October 2007 when it began to usetabloid format.[13] The daily was awarded the World's Best Designed Newspaper for 1994 by theSociety for News Design (SND).[14]
The circulation ofLa 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]
The newspaper has printed daily in two parallel editions, one in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, another inCatalan.[24] The Spanish nameLa Vanguardia is used for both editions (rather thanL'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]
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 ofLa Vanguardia's editorial staff.[citation needed]
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 theNational Museum of Art of Catalonia inBarcelona in 2023, and attended by theKing Felipe andQueen Letizia of Spain.[citation needed]
In the inaugural edition in 2023, they were presented by the King of Spain, to the following winners:[30]
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:[31]
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.
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.
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