{{Short description|Spanish newspaper}} {{Italic title}} '''''El Liberal''''' was a Spanish liberal newspaper published 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> between 1879 and 1936. It was one of the leading papers of Spain under the Restoration.
Between 1890 and 1906, ''El Liberal'' was edited by Miguel Moya (1856–1920), a leading Spanish journalist who would go on to preside the holding company and to found the Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid, which he would also preside from 1895 to 1920.
In 1901, its holding group, Sociedad Editorial de España, also known as "Grupo El Liberal" or the "Trust",<ref>{{in lang|es}} Gallego, José Andrés (1982) [https://books.google.com/books?id=CeWfkP_opiUC&q=%22Sociedad+Period%C3%ADstica+de+Espa%C3%B1a%22&pg=PA148 ''Historia general de España y América'', p. 146. Ediciones Rialp] At Google Books. Retrieved 7 August 2013.</ref> decided to publish specific editions for Barcelona, Sevilla y Bilbao. The Bilbao edition, particularly, would become especially prominent as a Republican paper, and would shortly afterwards be bought up by its editor, Indalecio Prieto,<ref>Romero Salvadó, Francisco J. (2013) [https://books.google.com/books?id=i5e7wRi-HGcC&dq=Spanish+prieto+journalist+bilbao&pg=PA263 ''Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War'', p. 263. Scarecrow Press] At Google Books. Retrieved 7 August 2013.</ref> who would go on to become a leading figure in Spanish politics, both as minister in successive governments of the Second Spanish Republic and as president of Spain's Socialist party (PSOE), from 1935 to 1948.
In 1913, ''El Liberal'' was the fourth best-selling newspaper in Madrid with a circulation of 115,000 copies.<ref name=andr>{{cite book|author=Andrew Reynolds|title=The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture: Modernismo's Unstoppable Presses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DSRFAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA127|accessdate=3 May 2015|date=20 October 2012|publisher=Bucknell University Press|isbn=978-1-61148-469-4|page=127}}</ref> The same year its Bilbao edition had a circulation of 17,000 copies.<ref name=andr/>
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