La Vanguardia

La Vanguardia (Catalan: [lə βəŋˈɡwaɾðiə];

Spanish: [la βaŋˈɡwaɾðja], Spanish for "The
Vanguard") is a Spanish daily newspaper,
founded in 1881. It is printed in Spanish
and, since 3 May 2011, also in Catalan
(Spanish copy is automatically translated
into Catalan). It has its headquarters in
Barcelona[1] and is Catalonia's leading
newspaper.
 La Vanguardia

La Vanguardia in a post-box

Type Daily newspaper

Format Tabloid

Owner(s) Grupo Godó

Publisher Javier Godó (Earl of

Godó)

Editor Màrius Carol

Founded 1 February 1881
Political alignment Liberalism, catalanism,
monarchism, centrism

Language Spanish (since 1881)

and Catalan (since
2011)

Headquarters Barcelona, Spain

Circulation 196,824 (2011)

Sister newspapers Mundo Deportivo

Website www.lavanguardia
.com

La Vanguardia, despite being mostly

distributed in Catalonia, has Spain's fourth-
highest circulation among general-interest
newspapers, trailing only the three main
Madrid dailies – El País, El Mundo and
ABC, all of which are national newspapers
with offices and local editions throughout
the country.

Its editorial line leans to the centre of

politics and is moderate in its opinions,
although under Franco it followed
Francoist ideology and to this day has
Catholic sensibilities and strong ties to the
Spanish nobility through the Godó family.

History and profile

First issue of La Vanguardia, 1881

La Vanguardia's newspaper history began

in Barcelona on 1 February 1881[2][3] when
two businessmen from Igualada, Carlos
and Bartolomé Godó, first published the
paper. It was defined as a Diario político de
avisos y notícias (Political Newspaper of
Announcements and News), intended as a
means of communication for a faction of
the Liberal Party that wanted to gain
control over the Barcelona city council.

On 31 December 1887, the paper

published its last edition as a party organ,
and the next day, 1 January 1888, the first
day of the Universal Exposition of
Barcelona, it presented a new, politically
independent format with morning and
afternoon editions.

It is one of the oldest papers in Spain, and

is the only Catalan newspaper that has
survived all the Spanish regime changes,
from the restoration of Alfonso XII to the
21st century.[4]

La Vanguardia is part of the Grupo

Godó.[5][6] 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 son Javier Godó Muntañola
in 1987.

From 1939 to 1978 its title included the

word Española to better accommodate the
new state ideology.[7] The paper was one
of two major dailies in Spain during the
Franco regime together with ABC.[7] In the
late 1970s and 1980s La Vanguardia had
close connections with Convergence and
Union alliance.[8]

In 1987 La Vanguardia received the second

largest amount of state aid.[9]

La Vanguardia was published in berliner

format[10][11] until 2 October 2007 when it
began to use tabloid format.[12] The daily
was awarded the World's Best Designed
Newspaper for 1994 by the Society for
News Design (SND).[13]

Circulation
The circulation of La Vanguardia was
221,451 copies in February 1970 and
218,390 copies in February 1975.[14] Five
years later the circulation of the paper was
188,555 copies in February 1980.[14]

In 1993 La Vanguardia had a circulation of

208,029 copies, making it the fifth best
selling newspaper in Spain.[15][16] In 1994 it
was the fourth best selling newspaper in
the country with a circulation of 207,112
copies.[16][17]

La Vanguardia had a circulation of 205,000

copies in 2001.[18] Its circulation was
203,000 copies in 2003.[19][20] Between
June 2006 and July 2007 the daily had a
circulation of 209,735 copies.[1] The 2008
circulation of the paper was 213,413
copies.[21] It was 196,824 copies in
2011.[22]

Language
The newspaper prints daily in two parallel
editions, one in Spanish and, since 3 May
2011, another one in Catalan.[23] The
Spanish name La Vanguardia is used for
both editions (rather than L'Avantguarda,
the Catalan translation).

Before the birth of the Catalan edition,

letters to the editor submitted in Catalan
were always left untranslated.

Notable contributors
John Carlin
Julià Guillamon
Quim Monzó
Fernando Krahn
Pedro Madueño
Sergi Pàmies
Pilar Rahola
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

See also
Gaziel
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Further reading
 Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The
world's great dailies: profiles of fifty
newspapers (1980) pp 334–37

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