A Capital

{{Short description|Newspaper in Lisbon, Portugal, between 1968 and 2005}} {{about|the Portuguese newspaper|similarly named topics|Capital (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = A Capital | logo = | image = | caption = | type = Daily newspaper | format = | owners = | founder = | publisher = | editor = | chief_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = | news_editor = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = 1 February 1968 | political_position = Populist | language = | ceased_publication = 30 July 2005 | headquarters = Lisbon | circulation = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = | oclc = | website = }}

'''''A Capital''''' (meaning ''The Capital [City]'' in English) was a Portuguese afternoon newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal, between 1968 and 2005.

==History and profile== ''A Capital'' was first published on 21 February 1968.<ref name=kmax> {{cite book|author=Jorge Braga de Macedo|editor=Kenneth Maxwell|title=The Press and the Rebirth of Iberian Democracy |date=1983|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, CT|chapter=Newspapers and Democracy in Portugal: The Role of Market Structure|isbn=9780313231001}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title= European News Resources|url=http://guides.nyu.edu/content.php?pid=74313&sid=704214|work=NYU Libraries|accessdate=24 January 2015|archive-date=28 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128112921/http://guides.nyu.edu/content.php?pid=74313&sid=704214 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The paper was established as a result of the editorial conflicts in the daily newspaper ''Diário Popular''.<ref name=kmax/>

''A Capital'' had a populist stance.<ref name=hov/> Before the Carnation Revolution the paper was owned by different companies, including the Banco Espírito e Comercial de Lisboa, CUF, Tabaqueira and Sorel.<ref name=hel> {{cite web|author= Helena Sousa|title=Portuguese Media: New Forms of Concentration|url=http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/bitstream/1822/1620/1/hsousa_IAMCRCoreia_1994.pdf|publisher=University of Minho|accessdate=24 January 2015|format=Conference paper|date=1994}}</ref> The paper was nationalized following the revolution.<ref name=kmax/> ''A Capital'' was purchased by Prensa Ibérica in 2001.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2001/09/28/sociedad/1001628009_850215.html|website=El País|date=28 September 2001|title=El Grupo Prensa Ibérica compra el periódico lisboeta 'A Capital'}}</ref>

''A Capital'' ceased publication on 30 July 2005.<ref name=hov>{{cite web|title=Press in Portugal – Historical Overview|url=http://www.gmcs.pt/en/historical-overview-20140314-122908|work=GMCS|accessdate=24 January 2015|date=7 July 2014}}</ref>

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