Spain’s News Media Are Squeezed by Government and Debt
MADRID — Newspapers almost everywhere have struggled to adjust to digital technology and declining advertising revenues.
But in Spain,
the rapid restructuring of a shrinking industry — more than 11,000
journalists have lost their jobs here in seven years — has also prompted
mounting concerns over whether Spain’s most established papers have
lost their editorial independence amid the financial squeeze.
the rapid restructuring of a shrinking industry — more than 11,000
journalists have lost their jobs here in seven years — has also prompted
mounting concerns over whether Spain’s most established papers have
lost their editorial independence amid the financial squeeze.
Pedro J. Ramírez, second from
left, this week in Madrid at El Español, a news website he created
after he left the top job at El Mundo.
Credit
Carlos Lujan for The New York Times
