El Norte de Castilla

El Norte de Castilla

Type	Newspaper
Owner(s)	Grupo Vocento
President	Alejandro Royo-Villanova
Editor	Carlos Aganzo
Language	Spanish
Headquarters	Valladolid
Circulation	33,388 (as of Daily)
Website	http://www.elnortedecastilla.es

El Norte de Castilla ("The North of Castile") is a daily Spanish newspaper based in Valladolid. It is Spain's oldest daily newspaper, tracing its origins to 1854, and has a daily circulation of 216,000. The main edition is published in Valladolid, but editions are published for Palencia, Salamanca, and Segovia.^[1][2][3] The paper has a widely accessed Spanish-language website and is considered one of the most reliable and influential periodical in Castile.^[4]

History

The newspaper can be traced to 1854, when Mariano Perez Mínguez and Pascual Pastor created El Avisador ("The Reminder"). In 1856, this paper merged with a local competitor, El Correo de Castilla ("The Castile Courier").^[5] El Norte de Castilla was established in April 1856 by the amalgamation of these two papers; the first issue of the newly formed paper was published on 17 October 1856.^[5] In 1870, the paper was acquired by Gaviria and Zapatero, and was sold in 1893 to César Silió y Cortés and Santiago Alba y Bonifaz, who would both later become Ministers of the President.^[6] They occupied the positions of director and manager, respectively.^[7] It was under their leadership that the paper was published daily.^[7]

Cortés was replaced in his position by Antonio Royo Villanova, of whom the present chairman of the board, Alejandro Royo-Villanova, is a descendant.^[8]

From 1958 to 1963, the director was Miguel Delibes, who later become one of Spain's greatest novelists.^[9] Among the young journalists then working for Delibes, Francisco Umbral started here, leaving for Madrid in 1961, where he became a writer, and Manu Leguineche would become a war correspondent. From 1963 to 1967, Delibes's position was filled by Félix Antonio González, a Spanish poet.^[10] In 1992, the publication was integrated into the "Grupo Correo", which was later subsumed by Grupo Vocento.^[11] The illustrator José Orcajo was a cartoonist at the paper at this time.^[12]

As at March 2014 the chairman of the board is Alejandro Royo-Villanova, and the CEO is Ignacio Pérez Alonso.^[13]

El Norte de Castilla launched its digital edition in 1997. Its web page offers three primary services: multimedia service, interactivity with subscribers via blogs, and hypertext interpolation. The website is ranked as the 24,055th most visited website in the world, and the 703rd most visited in Spain.^[14]

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