El País

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Front page, 2009-06-01
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner	Grupo PRISA
Publisher	Jesús de Polanco
Editor	Javier Moreno
Founded	May 4, 1976
Political allegiance	Social-Democrat, Centre-Left
Language	Spanish
Headquarters	Miguel Yuste 40, 28037 Madrid  Spain
Circulation	432,204 daily in 2006[1]
Website	http://www.elpais.com/

El País (English: The Country) is the most widely-circulated daily newspaper in Spain. According to the 2005 Estudio General de Medios (General Media Study), it has about 2.1 million readers; El Mundo ("The World") is second with an estimated 1.29 million readers.^[1] El País is often referred to as a newspaper of record from Spain, along with its fellow Madrid morning dailies El Mundo and ABC. Politically and ideologically it is connected with social democrats.^{[citation needed]}

It was first published on May 4, 1976, during the early stages of the Spanish transition to democracy. Founder José Ortega Spottorno based it on the model of France's Le Monde. It is now part of the media conglomerate Grupo Prisa ^[2].

On September 26, 2007 the paper published the Bush-Aznar memo, a leaked transcript of a closed-door meeting between presidents Bush and Aznar shortly before the invasion of Iraq ^[3].

[edit] Notable contributors

• Ariel Dorfman
• Juan Carlos Gumucio
• Elvira Lindo
• Mario Vargas Llosa
• Javier Marías
• Rosa Montero
• Manuel Rivas
• Eduardo Mendoza
• Empar Moliner
• Maruja Torres
• Eduardo Haro Tecglen
• Pilar Rahola
• Juan José Millás
• Manuel Valls

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• (Spanish) El País official webpage
• El País at the International Herald Tribune

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