Libertad Digital

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Libertad Digital is an advocacy journalism online libertarian conservative newspaper edited in Madrid, Spain.

[edit] Origins

Founded by pundit Federico Jiménez Losantos, its first edition was released on March 8, 2000. Also was promoted by the economist Alberto Recarte, who is the president of the Libertad Digital society, and Javier Rubio, who also is the editor.

[edit] The daily

Besides daily news, Libertad Digital is an opinion newspaper. It has nearly a hundred of contributors who write 12 columns a day. Since January 2005 the paper also has an ideas supplement from Monday to Friday. Among its best-known contributors are Amando de Miguel, Carlos Rodríguez Braun, César Vidal, Pío Moa, Alberto Míguez, Jorge Valín, Francisco Cabrillo and Juan Carlos Girauta. In 2004 the editorial Hoja Perenne published the first yearbook.

It includes the Cox & Forkum editorial cartoons and for a while an English version, The Spain Herald, which has been offline since June 2006.