Our history is

made up of many stories.

We were born in 2002 with the merger of Grupo Correo and Prensa Española. Vocento may be young, but our history goes back to 1854 and the launch of our oldest newspaper.

Our history is

made up of many stories.

Nacimos en 2002, con la fusión del Grupo Correo y Prensa Española. Lo cierto es que Vocento es joven, pero nuestra historia se remonta hasta 1854 para encontrar los orígenes de nuestro diario más antiguo.

1901

Gabriel María Ybarra de la Revilla and the Ybarra brothers launched the newspaper El Pueblo Vasco in Bilbao and planted the seed for Grupo Correo. Newspaper printing was in the intellectual and cultural vanguard of the age. Today some of these local newspapers are more than 100 years old and form part of Vocento.

1938

In 1938, at the height of the civil war, El Pueblo Vasco merged with El Correo Vasco to form El Correo Español-El Pueblo Vasco.

1945

With the shareholders of El Noticiero Bilbaino, in 1945 the group created Bilbao Editorial, S.A. and in 1948 it acquired El Diario Vasco.

1980

The company later became Grupo Correo and in the 1980s embarked on a series of acquisitions and partnerships which would see it acquire some of Spain’s most important regional newspapers:

El Norte de Castilla (founded in 1854), Las Provincias (1866), El Comercio (1878), La Rioja (1889), El Diario Montañés (1902), La Verdad (1903), Ideal (1932), Hoy (1933), Sur (1937) and our youngest newspaper, la Voz de Cádiz (2004).

1891

Meanwhile, in 1891 Don Torcuato Luca de Tena founded the magazine Blanco y Negro. In 1903, he published the first edition of ABC. Both titles formed part of Prensa Española.

After starting life as a weekly magazine “of universal information”, in 1905 ABC was launched as a daily newspaper with the vocation of being “an independent, impartial newspaper, which believes in the power of the press to bring reality directly to the public and to disseminate opinions of proven authority in all branches of human knowledge”.

2002

Merge of Group Correo
and Prensa Española.

Vocento is born.

We are proud

Now you know what we mean when we say that our history is made up of many stories. Above all, stories of people. It is our people that makes us most proud to be part of Vocento today: our journalists, our teams, our professionals.

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