The World (Spain)

El Mundo, formerly called El Mundo del Siglo XXI, is a daily Spanish newspaper. It has its headquarters in Madrid. The director from its founding on October 23, 1989 until January 30, 2014 was Pedro J. Ramírez. In addition to the general national printed edition (ISSN 1697-0179), it has had and has different regional and local editions. According to data certified by the Office of Diffusion Justification (OJD) for the printed publication, the average circulation of El Mundo was 229,741 copies and the average circulation was 156,172 copies (data referred to to the period from July 2013 to June 2014); and for the digital version of the printed publication the average circulation was 28,731 copies (data refers to the period from January 2013 to December 2013).

It also has an open edition on the internet called elmundo.es (ISSN 1576-6969). The contents are not exactly the same as in the printed edition, although a digital version of the printed edition can be accessed from the portal through a specific virtual kiosk. The digital version of the newspaper is the second most consulted digital newspaper in Spanish in the world with 9,036,000 unique users (September 2016).

The publishing company of El Mundo is Unidad Editorial Información General, S.L.U., which is owned by Unidad Editorial, S.A., also owner of Grupo Recoletos, which is majority owned by the RCS MediaGroup group (Rizzoli), which controls the Italian newspaper with the largest circulation, the Corriere della Sera, and which sets the general guidelines for action.

On March 8, 2010, the Unidad Editorial Group, together with other publishing companies, launched the Orbyt kiosk, a digital platform for paid content aimed at all the editorial products of said companies, in which, in addition to having specific sections (four for El Mundo), you can also consult the newspaper archive of all the publications, give your opinion and interact with the editorial staff.

According to what was published by the Italian group that owns the corporation, RCS MediaGroup (Rizzoli), Unidad Editorial closed the 2011 financial year with losses of 322 million euros, being the fifth consecutive year in the red, leaving Unidad Editorial in a situation of "technical bankruptcy". This financial situation has improved with efficiency plans and the promotion of digital business, achieving positive results in 2017.

History

It appeared for the first time on October 23, 1989. Its founders were Alfonso de Salas, Pedro J. Ramírez, Balbino Fraga and Juan González.

Following in the wake of the previous newspaper directed by Pedro J. Ramírez, Diario 16, El Mundo has made revelations that had a significant impact on public opinion and influenced the wear and tear of the former president and the victory of José María Aznar in 1996.

The newspaper generally supported the government of José María Aznar. However, she questioned some of his actions, ^{[ citation needed ] especially those that could favor PRISA – since the time of Felipe González both became rivals. The World'[citation required]' He also seriously criticized the Iraq War.}

The newspaper gave a vote of confidence to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. But he maintained a critical line with the socialist government, which is currently predominant. Among his criticisms are the pacts with peripheral nationalists, which according to El Mundo led to the reform of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia or the attempt to negotiate peace with ETA.^{[citation required ]} Regarding its investigative work, El Mundo is one of the main promoters of the theories that question the judicial investigation of the attacks of March 11, 2004, shown as attempts to clarify aspects that, in their opinion, would be unresolved.

In 2009 Amaya García Ortiz de Jocano was awarded the Ortega y Gasset Prize for journalism in the digital journalism modality for the report Class of history at the foot of the grave, published in elmundo.es.

In 2010, according to the accounts that Unidad Editorial, S.A. deposited with the Commercial Registry of Madrid, the newspaper suffered technical bankruptcy due to the decline in advertising and sales. The newspaper has had to receive a loan from its parent company RCS MediaGroup worth €8.8 million, according to the report the newspaper had lost up to a third of its regular readers.

On May 28, 2012, the publisher El Mundo signed an ERE, justifying the company's economic situation in the face of the sharp decline in advertising revenue, and after the editorial team had approved by simple majority. A previous pre-agreement was respected, which included 142 departures (113 from the central editorial office in Madrid and delegations and 29 from the corporate department, documentation and magazines (Magazine, Metrópoli, < i>I Donate). That same month, El Mundo workers in Madrid carried out a strike to rise up against the newspaper's directors who carried out the dismissals.

Editorial line

The newspaper El Mundo defines its editorial line as liberal. He is usually critical of the PSOE and peripheral nationalisms and close (especially in Spanish politics) to the PP, although he appears far from purely conservative principles.^{[citation required]} In certain foreign policy issues he was critical of the last Aznar government for its support for the Iraq war.

During the last term of Felipe González, he saw judicial confirmation of his journalistic investigations and those of other media that had uncovered the dirty war carried out by the GAL, as well as different episodes of corruption that involved the PSOE (Filesa) and senior political officials of the socialist government, which would finally be condemned in some cases, while in others the condemned was the newspaper itself. This critical trend was accentuated during the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, in which the newspaper was one of the greatest exponents of the so-called conspiracy theories of 11M, based on their own journalistic speculations not supported by the judicial investigation and on the interpretation of various indications from the summary in relation to the attack.

Among its columnists there is a certain heterogeneity. The opinions of some of its columnists on the Catholic Church, the monarchy or conservative values (visible, for example, in the columns of Antonio Gala, Federico Jiménez Losantos, Raúl del Pozo, Fernando Sánchez-Dragó, Luis María Anson, Arcadi Espada or Salvador Sostres) move away from the line of purely conservative newspapers such as ABC and La Razón.

The journalist Elena de Regoyos defends the theory that the objective of El Mundo is to become the reference written medium for the Spanish right, displacing the conservative newspaper ABC. In the same sense, the radio journalist Federico Jiménez Losantos, in whose gathering the then director of El Mundo, Pedro J. Ramírez, participated twice a week, has repeatedly asked the subscribers of the newspaper ABC to cancel their subscriptions (a fact for which they were judicially warned) and subscribe to El Mundo.

Editions

Regional and local editions

Unidad Editorial, S.A. has maintained a policy of existence of regional and local editions. A distinction can be made between the regional editions created in the last decade of the XX century, with their own capital, from the local editions created in the first decade of the XXI century, in which it signed alliances with other existing local information media and capital from the fabric local and regional business. At the end of that decade, the closure of many of the more than twenty-five current regional and local newspapers began to be closed, as part of the business restructuring policy of the communication group.

Special editions

Published a special daily edition of The World, called Classroom (1999-2007), of national rank, which was distributed in the educational centers during the academic period (ISSN 1699-8537). Regional publication The World of the 21st Century Basque Country also had a special edition Classroom of The World (2001-2007) (ISSN 1579-2692).

He also published a special daily edition The World, for the IFEMA, which was distributed in trade fairs during the period of fairs and exhibitions, until 2007 (ISSN 1699-8529).

Electronic edition

In addition, EL MUNDO has its digital edition elmundo.es (ISSN 1576-6969). It began in October 1995 and the company Mundintercambios S.A. was created to publish the digital version. (1995-2008), later converted into Unidad Editorial Internet, S.L. (2008-). Its digital edition offers constantly updated content, some of which is free, in particular subscription to newsletters sent by email. It also includes another part of payment, corresponding to the contents taken from the printed newspaper. In general, the contents of elmundo.es are independent although, more or less occasionally, the texts generated on the Internet jump to the paper pages and vice versa. It has its own interactive graphics department and video department to develop specific content. Likewise, it has a total of 61 updated blogs, 91 without updating, differentiated by theme and content.

In 2010 it was one of the leading web portals for information in Spanish with more than 26 million unique users (data from the OJD, July 2010). In 2010, elmundo.es adapts its multimedia elements to be viewed on Android, iPhone and iPad devices, downloading and installing its new specific application (app). Digital subscriptions to the El Mundo newspaper and the Editorial Unit's magazines are also available through the Orbyt online newsstand.

It also has a website dedicated exclusively to parents and children called Toads and Princesses, where the authors talk about plans to do as a family, restaurants to visit, they do raffles, etc.

Supplements

Weekly magazines and supplements

Weekly magazines and distribution supplements with the newspaper have been varying over time. Among them are: The Journal of the World, Magazine, Chronicle, Metrópoli, The Moon of the 21st Century, The Moon of Metropoli, Books Sphere, The Cultural, Classroom, Campus, SD: Your Money, New economy, Your Computer, Ariadn@,Motor & Travel, Motor, Travel, Nautical, SV: Your Housing, Mini World. World Youth Weekly, M: The Style of the World, Health, Natura, I dona. Some have been or are of local or regional distribution and others of national distribution. Some present their own format and others have the format of the newspaper, presenting themselves in the central pages of the publication, even with specific pageation.

The Moon of Metropolis. El Mundo's Weekend Leisure Magazine appeared on May 7, 2004, distributed on Fridays, as a result of the merger of La Luna del Siglo XXI (1999- 2004), avant-garde, film and music supplement, which was distributed on Fridays; with Metrópoli (1990-2004), a leisure guide to Madrid, which was distributed on Fridays or Saturdays.

The cultural information supplement, El Cultural, has been linked to the newspaper since Unidad Editorial, S.A. in 1999. acquired said newspaper and its publishing company. Its appearance caused the supplement Esfera de los Libros to stop being published. The day of joint distribution has varied: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

The Sunday magazine has had several names and changes in format and style. It began with Magazine (1989-1995), continued as La Revista de El Mundo (1995-1999), and returned with the popular Magazine i> (1999-), to which he added The English Magazine (2006-), version inserted in the Magazine, with some of the contents in English. Currently, the lifestyle magazine Fuera de Serie is published on Sundays together with El Mundo.

The weekly magazine dedicated to women, Yo Dona (2005-), is jointly distributed on Saturdays.

Yearbook and monthly, quarterly and annual supplements

The newspaper El Mundo began in 1993 the preparation and printed publication of a Yearbook (ISSN 1137-1404). Since 2005 it has had an electronic version on CD-ROM (ISSN 1886-6352) and on DVD (ISSN 1886-6360). This is a product independent of newspaper distribution.

La Nueva Mesa (ISSN 1576-6942) has been a gastronomic supplement published quarterly and distributed jointly with the newspaper.

On the first Friday of each month you can get the magazine Toads and Princesses for free at any newsstand by purchasing El Mundo. This magazine is aimed at parents and families with children with the aim of teaching them ways to enjoy free time with their children.

Documents and specials

The newspaper El Mundo also prepares and publishes, inserted in the central pages of the newspaper, various documents, some serialized with different periodicity and others with special ones, generally on the occasion of singular events or anniversaries thereof.

The series of Documents: The Ranking of El Mundo, has several annual edition titles, dedicated to the educational world and Spanish people:

• 250 Child Schools, initiated in 2006, with the intention of presenting an annual character, has been published in February without further continuity; and analyzes the Spanish children's schools that teach them, under a series of 20 predetermined criteria.
• 100 Colleges, initiated in 2000, is published on an annual basis in March; and analyzes Spanish schools, schools, academies and schools under a series of 27 predetermined criteria.
• 50 Races, initiated in 2001, is published on an annual basis in the month of May; and analyzes the most demanded university degrees and the Spanish universities that impart them, under a series of 26 predetermined criteria.
• 250 Master & Complete Guide of MBA, initiated in 2004, is published on an annual basis in the month of June; and analyzes the most demanded master's studies and the Spanish universities and business schools that teach them, under a series of 26 predetermined criteria.
• The 500 Spanish most influential/powerful of the yearlaunched in 2000, it is published on an annual basis in January; and it collects in several lists those considered for that year, the 500 Spanish people, more influential or more powerful (the denomination varies according to the year), with brief semblances of which appear in the first 100 posts of the general list "of power". The general "of power" list of 100 people is complemented by other listings of 50 and 25 people, with brief references, by different sections: Politics, Law, Economics and Finance, Communication, Education, Science and Technology, Medicine, International, Women, Youth, Alternative Power, Art, Music, Internet, Film and Theater, Publishing, Trend Creators, Establishment, Eméritos; and with other listings of 20 people by each of the autonomous communities and cities.

Many of the special documents have been transferred to electronic format, in many cases adding their own interactive content to them, available in the "Specials" section of the electronic edition of elmundo.es.

Every year, the newspaper El Mundo grants three recognitions, the so-called Titles of El Mundo: Character of the Year, Enemy of the Year and City of the Year. They highlight, respectively, the most influential figure, the most reprehensible and the most prominent place of the year that ends.

Directors

• Pedro J. Ramírez (1989-2014)
• Casimiro García-Abadillo (2014-2015)
• David Jiménez (2015-2016)
• Pedro García Cuartongo (2016-2017)
• Francisco Rosell (2017-2022)
• Joaquín Manso (2022-current)

Columnists

†: Failed.

Editorial illustrators and graphic humorists

(by personal or collective signature)

Reviews

The World has attracted criticism of some publications. He was accused of misogyny by some newspapers, after laying headlines for older men like the musician Mick Jagger, highlighting his age, while using headers denoting the age in Beyoncé and Madonna in derogatory forms. The presenter Mónica Carrillo shared the case of the three, through her official Twitter account, where she manifested "Mans cantantes ✔" followed by "Women singers s" with public reactions against publications. The World.