Avui

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title: "Avui" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1976-establishments-in-spain", "2011-disestablishments-in-spain", "catalan-language-newspapers", "defunct-newspapers-published-in-spain", "newspapers-published-in-barcelona", "daily-newspapers-published-in-spain", "newspapers-established-in-1976", "newspapers-disestablished-in-2011", "defunct-daily-newspapers"] description: "Catalan daily newspaper" topic_path: "geography/spain" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avui" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Catalan daily newspaper ::

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Field	Value
name	AVUI
image	[[Image:Diari Avui Llegiu.JPG
caption	Former logo
type	Daily newspaper
format	39x29cm
ceased_publication	31 July 2011
founded	23 April 1976
owners	Hermes Comunicacions (publisher of El Punt)
language	Catalan
political_position
circulation	41,216 (OJD, June 2005)
headquarters	Enric Granados 84, Barcelona
website
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Avui (; ) was a Catalan-language daily newspaper, based in Barcelona, Catalonia. It was one of the city's newest papers, having been founded in 1976. The editorial line was Catalan nationalist.

History and profile

Avui was first published on 23 April 1976, (Saint George's day, a symbolic holiday in Catalonia). The founding company was Premsa Catalana.{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture|year=1999|publisher=Routledge|location=London |editor1=Eamonn Rodgers|editor2=Valerie Rodgers|url=http://1.droppdf.com/files/C7uZ6/encyclopedia-of-contemporary-spanish-culture.pdf|isbn=0-415-13187-1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227124034/http://1.droppdf.com/files/C7uZ6/encyclopedia-of-contemporary-spanish-culture.pdf|archive-date=27 December 2020|page=40}} The paper initially relied on the subscriptions of thousands of Catalans for financial support. It soon went into financial problems and changed ownership. A partnership of two publishers along with the Catalan national government itself took over in order to avoid imminent bankruptcy. The Grupo Godó owned 40% of the paper, which had its headquarters in Barcelona.

The Catalan government subsidises with important amounts those Catalan newspapers with at least one Catalan language edition. In 2008 Avui was only second to El Punt in terms of circulation/funds granted, having received almost 1.5 million euros that amounted to 48.9 euros per newspaper sold.

Then it went to change hands again in 2009, being bought by its rival El Punt, and creating the new newspaper El Punt Avui on 31 July 2011.

References

References

1. Katrin Voltmer. (2006). "Mass Media and Political Communication in New Democracies". Psychology Press.
2. "Country Profile: Spain". Institute of Media and Communications Study.
3. (2012). "Dictionary of Contemporary Spain". Routledge.
4. "Catalunya Generalitat".

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