Journalism and local economic life: the asturian newspaper "El Comercio" in the beginning of XXth century

Abstract

In the Spain of the first third of XXth century, partisan press was still something really common, being relatively alien to pure information competence in search of corporate profitability. We expect to outline a specific case of the opposite: the incipient press seen as a business, exemplified by the newspaper from Gijón “El Comercio”. We will deal with technical changes, the evolution in journalism criteria, its independence, subjection or political inclination. But, especially, we will pay attention to its imbrication and relations with local production network. Press as the leading actor in the economic life of a place.