El Mundo (Spain)
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Unidad Editorial S.A. |
| Editor | David Jiménez |
| Founded | 23 October 1989, as El Mundo del Siglo Veinte |
| Political alignment | Liberal, centre-right |
| Language | Spanish |
| Headquarters | Madrid, Spain |
| Circulation | 266,294 (2011) |
| Sister newspapers |
Marca Expansión |
| ISSN | 1697-0179 |
| Website | www |
El Mundo (Spanish for "The World", full name El Mundo del Siglo Veintiuno, "The World of the 21st Century") is the second largest printed daily newspaper in Spain. The paper is considered one of the country's newspapers of record along with El País and ABC.
El Mundo was first published on 23 October 1989. Perhaps the best known of its founders was Pedro J. Ramírez, who served as editor until 2014. Ramirez had risen to prominence as a journalist during the Spanish transition to democracy. The other founders, Alfonso de Salas, Balbino Fraga and Juan González, shared with Ramírez a background in Grupo 16, the publishers of the newspaper Diario 16. Alfonso de Salas, Juan Gonzales and Gregorio Pena also launched El Economista in 2006.
El Mundo, along with Marca and Expansión, is controlled by the Italian publishing company RCS MediaGroup through its Spanish subsidiary company Unidad Editorial S.L. Its former owner was Unedisa which merged with Grupo Recoletos in 2007 to form Unidad Editorial, current owner of the paper.
The paper has its headquarters in Madrid, but maintains several news bureaus in other cities. The daily has a national edition and ten different regional editions, including those for Andalusia, Valencia, Castile and León, the Balearic Islands and Bilbao. It is published in tabloid format.
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