Deia (newspaper)

Deia (in Basque, The call) is a Basque Country-based newspaper incorporated in 1977, with a Basque nationalistic perspective.

The newspaper is

The current director of the newspaper is Iñaki González Torre.

History

Deia, together with other publications by their publishing company, was created by the

The first edition was published with extraordinary speed, only three months after the founding of their parent organization Editorial Iparraguirre. Founded on 21 March 1977 with an initial capital investment of 40 million pesetas, they started with 25 founding members in their organization. Months later, they increased their initial capital through a series of popular subscription offers and by adding 600 shareholders. Two conditions assisted in the speed of their launch.  The first was the first democratic elections in Spain, which were scheduled to be held on 15 June 1977.  The second was that two other Basque nationalist societies, "Orain" and "Ardatza", were already working to create left leaning nationalist newspapers. Deia wanted to and did become the first Basque nationalist newspaper published in post-Franco Spain.

Among Deia's founding principles were the highlighting of timely and accurate information as well as focusing on news about individual and collective human rights, promoting solidarity of Basque society, defending Basque tradition, culture, language, politics, social life and family, alongside the promotion of the coexistence of its inhabitants within democratic institutions. Although at an early stage Deia assumed the daily role of unifying of all current opinions that opposed the dictatorship, their lack of definition made the daily newspaper seek a closer identification with the moderate Basque nationalists, represented publicly by the Partido Nacionalista Vasco.

Bibliography

• José María Caminos Marcet, La prensa diaria en el País Vasco, Ed. Orain, 1997.
  ISBN 84-89077-54-1
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External links

• Online version of Deia