Expansión (Spanish newspaper)

Expansión is a Spanish economic and business newspaper published in Madrid, Spain.

Expansión
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Grupo Recoletos
PublisherUnidad Editorial
Founded1 May 1986 (1986-05-01)
LanguageSpanish
HeadquartersMadrid
Circulation55,971 (2012)
Sister newspapersEl Mundo
Marca
Websitewww.expansion.com

History and profile

Expansión was established in May 1986.[1][2] The paper is published in tabloid format[2] and is owned by the Grupo Recoletos.[3] The publisher of the paper is Unidad Editorial.[4][5] Its sister newspapers are El Mundo and Marca.[5][6]

Expansión was part of the British group Pearson,[7] which had a share of 39% in the paper during the late 1990s.[8] During this period the publisher was Ârea Editorial.[2]

The headquarters of Expansión is in Madrid. The paper was awarded by the Society for News Design (SND) the World’s Best Designed Newspaper™ for 1994.[9] It celebrated its 25th anniversary in September 2011 with an event led by Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia.[10]

Circulation and readership

The circulation of Expansión was 39,047 copies in 1994.[2] The paper had a circulation of 52,645 copies in 2001.[11] Its circulation fell to 48,108 copies in 2002.[6] In 2003 the circulation of the paper was 48,000 copies.[12] The paper had a circulation of 47,577 copies in 2005.[13]

Based on the findings of the European Business Readership Survey the paper had 13,047 readers per issue in 2006.[14] The 2008 circulation of the paper was 50,128 copies, making it the most read business newspaper in the country.[4] The OJD certified circulation of the paper was 55,971 copies in 2012.[15]

References

  1. "Expansión (Spain)". Publicitas. Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  2. Jose L. Alvarez; Carmelo Mazza; Jordi Mur (October 1999). "The management publishing industry in Europe" (PDF). University of Navarra. Archived from the original (Occasional Paper No:99/4) on 30 June 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  3. José Alberto García Avilés; Miguel Carvajal (2008). "Integrated and Cross-Media Newsroom Convergence". The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 14 (2): 221–239. doi:10.1177/1354856507087945. S2CID 145370840.
  4. Alan Albarran (10 September 2009). Handbook of Spanish Language Media. Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-135-85430-0. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  5. "Daily Press" (PDF). Unidad Editorial. December 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  6. David Ward (2004). "A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries" (PDF). Dutch Media Authority. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  7. Robert G. Picard, ed. (2002). Media Firms: Structures, Operations, and Performance. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. p. 61. Retrieved 26 December 2014.  via Questia (subscription required)
  8. Denis McQuail; Karen Siune, eds. (1998). Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration & Commerce. SAGE Publications. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-7619-5939-7. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  9. "World's Best-Designed winners". Society for News Design. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  10. Anniversary Europress. 8 September 2011.
  11. Jagdeep S. Chhokar; Felix C. Brodbeck; Robert J. House (17 June 2013). Culture and Leadership Across the World: The GLOBE Book of In-Depth Studies of 25 Societies. Routledge. p. 644. ISBN 978-1-135-70380-6. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  12. "Financial Newspapers" (PDF). SFN Flash. 7 (1). 7 January 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  13. Ramón Salaverría (2007). The Spanish Media Landscape (Book chapter). European Media Governance. Intellect Books Ltd. p. 279. ISBN 978-1-84150-192-5. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  14. Craig Carroll (1 September 2010). Corporate Reputation and the News Media: Agenda-setting Within Business News Coverage in Developed, Emerging, and Frontier Markets. Routledge. p. 177. ISBN 978-1-135-25244-1. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  15. ml "MD Spain sees circulation rise" Check |url= value (help). money-marketuk. 31 January 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
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