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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Publisher | Grupo Vocento |
Founded | 1933 |
Political alignment | Right-of-centre |
Language | Spanish |
Headquarters | Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain |
Website |
hoy |
Hoy is a Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Badajoz, Spain. It is along El Periódico Extremadura one of the two major newspapers in the autonomous community of Extremadura. [1] Originally a venture of Editorial Católica, [2] it is currently part of the Vocento Group. [3]
It was founded in 1933 by Editorial Católica (EDICA), [4] [5] and it came to replace the Correo Extremeño. [6] According to a review published in the same newspaper it was "created to fight against Socialism". [7] Its first editor was Santiago Lozano, [8] coming from the School of Journalism of El Debate. For the rest of the Second Republic the newspaper stuck to editorial policy close to the CEDA. [6] During the Francoist dictatorship the newspaper remained under the control of EDICA.
Hoy was purchased in 1988 by the Correo Group, [9] merged in 2001 with Prensa Española to form Vocento.