La Gaceta del Sur (Gazette of the South) was a Spanish newspaper published in the city of Granada. between 1908 and 1931.[1][a]
History
The newspaper had a Catholic and fundamentalist ideology.[3]
It was founded in 1908.[1][4]
During the first third of the twentieth century it was one of the main newspapers published in Granada.[5]
At its peak, during the 1920s, it barely managed to surpass the 5,000 daily print run.[6]
It had a short period (1918–1919) in which, being under the influence of the priest Luis López-Dóriga, the newspaper had an editorial line of a Catholic-progressive nature.[7]
During the anticlerical riots of May 1931 the newspaper office went up in flames.[8]
After this, the newspaper stopped being published.
The Catholic hierarchy tried to put it back into circulation, but the attempt failed and they decided to start a new newspaper, the Ideal.[8]
Notes
^Antonio Checa Godoy says the newspaper was founded in 1909.[2]
Checa Godoy, Antonio (1989), Prensa y partidos políticos durante la II República (in Spanish), Universidad de Salamanca, ISBN84-7481-521-5
Checa Godoy, Antonio (1991), Historia de la prensa andaluza (in Spanish), Fundación Blas Infante
Reig García, Ramón (2011), La comunicación en Andalucía: Historia, estructura y nuevas tecnologías (in Spanish), Seville: Centro de Estudios Andaluces, ISBN978-84-939078-0-8
Ruiz Sánchez, José-Leonardo (2005), Catolicismo y comunicación en la historia contemporánea (in Spanish), Universidad de Sevilla
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