Granma (newspaper)

Granma

Logo of English version of Granma
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Cuban government
Founded	October 4, 1965
Political alignment	Communist Party of Cuba
Language	Spanish, English
Headquarters	Havana, Cuba
Website	granma.cu

Granma is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party. It was formed in 1965 by the merger of two previous papers, Revolución and Hoy. Its name comes from the yacht Granma that carried Fidel Castro and 81 other rebels to Cuba's shores in 1956, launching the Cuban Revolution.Marta Rojas worked for the paper since its founding.

The newspaper is published daily and is the most widely read newspaper in Cuba. In 1997, the circulation of the newspaper was estimated to be approximately 675,000. Several weekly international editions, available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish and Portuguese, are also distributed abroad. Also, news stories from Granma are often carried later in the Spanish-language sections of periodicals with a similar political base,{{CN} such as People's Weekly World.}

Granma regularly features:

The normal edition is published six days a week (not Sundays) and runs to eight pages plus occasional supplements.