{{Short description|Spanish Catholic newspaper}} {{About|the Spanish newspaper|similar titles|El Debate (disambiguation){{!}}El Debate}} {{italics title}} '''''El Debate''''' is a Spanish Catholic daily newspaper, that was originally published in Madrid between 1910 and 1936.<ref name="angel">{{cite book|author=Angel Smith|title=Historical Dictionary of Spain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IFuxO9NO-voC&pg=PA238|accessdate=16 May 2015|date=2 January 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6267-8|page=238}}</ref><ref name=olmo>{{cite journal|author=Francisco Núñez-Romero Olmo|display-authors=etal|title=Sports and the visual structure of El Debate (1910-1936). The switch to the horizontal layout|journal=Revista Latina|date=2010|volume=65|url=http://www.revistalatinacs.org/10/art2/901_Madrid/RLCS_art901EN.pdf|accessdate=16 May 2015|archive-date=9 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309100324/http://www.revistalatinacs.org/10/art2/901_Madrid/RLCS_art901EN.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was the most important Catholic newspaper of its time in Spain.<ref>{{cite book|author=Stanley G. Payne|title=Spain's First Democracy: The Second Republic, 1931-1936|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46N-pNbNG2kC&pg=PA167|year=1993|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-13674-1|page=167}}</ref> It was relaunched in 2021 as an online publication.<ref name="ECD"/>
==History and profile== ''El Debate'' was founded in 1910 by Guillermo de Rivas during the controversy originated by the so-called Padlock Bill, against the establishment of any more religious orders in Spain. It suffered a very unsuccessful management during its first months and it was sold to Ángel Herrera Oria and his Asociación Católica Nacional de Propagandistas (ACNdP). Herrera Oria edited the newspaper from 1911 to 1933.<ref name=angel/> Its headquarters was in Madrid.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gabriel Jackson|title=Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vpOwwZWGtBcC&pg=PA555|accessdate=7 June 2015|date=5 May 2012|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-2018-4|page=555}}</ref>
Ideologically, ''El Debate'' was very conservative and clerical, and journalistically it was very modern. The paper imported journalistic techniques from the United States and in 1926 opened the first Journalism School of Spain. It was the first newspaper with specific sport information. During the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923–1930) ''El Debate'' supported the previous censorship in order to protect religious, moral and juridical values. When the Second Republic was proclaimed, the newspaper declared its compliance to the new regime, although this annoyed many of its monarchist readers.
During the Second Republic (1931–1936) the government suspended its activity several times. The paper supported the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (CEDA), the rightist and possibilist coalition that won election in 1933. After the beginning of the Civil War, the facilities were the newspapers of the ACNdP publishing house, Editorial Católica, were printed, were confiscated by the Communist Party of Spain and Republican Left. While the Communist voice, ''Mundo Obrero'', was printed using the material of ''Ya'', a little pre-war newspaper, ''Política'', the voice of Republican Left took ''El Debate'' ones.<ref>[http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/tesis/19911996/S/3/S3002401.pdf Bajo el control obrero. La prensa diaria en Madrid durante la guerra civil, 1936-1939], PhD Thesis, Juan Carlos Mateos Fernández. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1996.</ref> In 1939 the Francoist government did not give permission for the reestablishment of ''El Debate'',<ref name=angel/> and Editorial Católica re-issued ''Ya'', a newspaper with less political significance, that was the actual heir of ''El Debate''.
==Website== '''El Debate''', launched in 2021,<ref name="ECD">{{Cite web|url=https://religion.elconfidencialdigital.com/articulo/catolicos/el-debate/20210921024612042326.html|title=Nace El Debate, el periódico que recupera la Asociación Católica de Propagandistas 111 años después|trans-title=El Debate is born, the newspaper that the Catholic Association of Propagandists recovers 111 years later |language=es|date=8 October 2021|website=Religión Confidencial}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=El digital eldebate.com se da de alta en OJD « OJD |url=https://www.ojd.es/el-digital-eldebate-com-se-da-de-alta-en-ojd/ |access-date=2025-10-19 |language=es-ES}}</ref> styles itself as the heir to the newspaper.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eldebate.com/quienes-somos.html |title=Quienes Somos |trans-title=About Us |website=ElDebate.com|date=30 September 2021 |language=es}}</ref> It is operated by the Catholic Association of Propagandists (the former ACNdP).<ref name="ECD"/> In 2024, Ramón Pérez-Maura was chief of the editorial page.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=25 January 2024|author1=Isambard Wilkinson|date=24 January 2024|language=en|quote=Ramón Pérez-Maura, the comment editor of El Debate|title=Spain branded woke for plan to 'decolonise' museums|url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/article/spain-branded-woke-for-plan-to-decolonise-museums-q0t3wdq8d|work=The Times}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== *Artola, Miguel (ed.): ''Enciclopedia de Historia de España'', Madrid: Alianza, V, pp. 387–388
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