El Economista (Spain)

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El Economista
El Economista.es.svg
TypeDaily business newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Founder(s)
PublisherEditorial Ecoprensa, S.A.
Founded28 February 2006;18 years ago (2006-02-28)
LanguageSpanish
HeadquartersMadrid
Country Spain
ISSN 2173-4976
OCLC number 733206258
Website

El Economista (Spanish: The Economist) is a Spanish daily newspaper which focuses on economical, financial and business affairs. The daily is headquartered in Madrid, Spain. [1]

Contents

History and profile

El Economista was first published on 28 February 2006, [2] being the fourth financial daily in Spain. [3] [4] The founders of the daily are Alfonso de Salas, Juan Gonzales and Gregorio Pena who also launched El Mundo daily. [4] [5] The Editorial Ecoprensa, S.A. is the publisher the daily [6] [7] of which CEO is Salas. [4] [8]

The paper's target audience include professional and modern readers and investors. [3] It advocates the free competition, female equality and transparency. [3] The daily is published in broadsheet format [9] and uses plain and easy-to-understand words while reporting complex economical and financial affairs in its four sections which have their own colors. [4] It does not employ standard pink paper generally used in financial dailies, instead it uses white paper and full color print. [4] [6] The number of pages on weekdays is 36 whereas it is 64 during weekends. [4] Each Saturday the daily gives a supplement, El Especial, which provides analyses, reports and investigative articles. [4] In weekdays it also offers two distinct supplements. [4] On 31 March 2006 its website was launched [3] and the paper became the first Spanish financial daily to publish on Internet. [4] The daily later started an English website. [3]

El Economista was awarded the World's Best Designed Newspaper™ for 2006 by the Society for News Design (SND). [1] [10] [11] In 2006 and in 2007, El Economista was named again by the SND as the best designed newspaper in Spain and Portugal. [4] For the period of 2006–2007, the World Association of Newspapers named the paper as one of the world's ten best designed newspapers. [4]

Circulation

The 2007 OJD certified circulation of El Economista was 26,155 copies. [4] In 2011, El Economista was the third daily in its category with a circulation of 23,000 copies. [5] The paper sold 32,274 copies in 2012. [12]

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