Magazines in Spain are varied and numerous,[1] but they have small circulation.[2] In terms of frequency, the Spanish magazines are mostly weekly and monthly.[3] Although there are news magazines and political magazines in the country, they mostly focus on entertainment, social events, sports, and television.[3]
There were many influential feminist magazines in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the country. The first magazine of which the editor-in-chief was a woman was El Robespierre Español which was in circulation in between 1811 and 1812.[4] The number of mainstream women's magazines intensified in the 1960s.[5] As of 2014 there were also a large number of aviation magazines in the country.[6]
At least thirteen magazines were published by the Falange-operated publishing companies in 1948.[7] The data by the General Media Survey indicated that there were 137 magazines in Spain in 2003.[8] By the beginning of 2005 the number had risen to 576.[9] In addition, there were a total of 19 supplements.[9] However, between 2008 and 2012 a total of 182 magazines ceased publication in Spain.[10]
The following is an incomplete list of current and defunct magazines published in Spain. They may be published in Spanish or in other languages.
^Rosario de Mateo (2004). "Spain". In Mary Kelly; Gianpietro Mazzoleni; Denis McQuail (eds.). The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook. London: SAGE Publications. p. 227. ISBN978-0-7619-4132-3.
^Gloria García González (September 2020). "From anti-Franco resistance to the crisis of left-wing culture: Triunfo and La Calle, two weeklies in the democratic transition". International Journal of Iberian Studies. 33 (2–3): 177–192. doi:10.1386/ijis_00027_1. S2CID234651858.
^Juan Ignacio Guijarro González (September 2021). ""I looked upon the Nile"—and the Ebro: Reconstructing the History of Langston Hughes Translations in Spain (1930–1975)". The Langston Hughes Review. 27 (2): 142. doi:10.5325/langhughrevi.27.2.0137. S2CID240529722.