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The Barcelona Journal (Diari de Barcelona, in Catalan), is one of the oldest newspapers of Europe (1 October 1792), published uninterruptedly till the last decade of the ´90´s of XX Century. It was founded by the printer or Neapolitan origin Pedro Husson de Lapazaran.
It was written in Castilian and was a type of official journal that also published non-official news.
After the Independence War its exploitation was conceded to Antoni Brusi i Mirabent, and in the post years administrated by its families, for this reason being it was popularly designated as El Brusi.
The journal adopted a monarch and liberal-conservative ideology ; a position which, primarily if its continuance was guaranteed, in the long run, when the press censorship diminished, made them lose influence.
Catalan journalists wrote their articles in Castilian, between those was
Joan Maragall. With the attenuation of the press censorship, other journals (
La Vanguardia Española (1881) or
La Veu de Catalunya (1899)) replaced the predominance of Diario de Barcelona.
During the Civil War it was seized and transformed in an organ of the Estat Català party being published in Catalan by Marcel•lí Perelló i Domingo. At the end of the conflict it was returned to its owners.
It disappeared in 1980, but rose again auto-administered by the workers in 1982 as a bilingual edition. In 1984 it disappeared again until the next year when it was acquired by the City Council of Barcelona, who handed it over to
Grupo Zeta.
It was published yet again 1986 fully in Catalan, disappearing again, save the publication via the Internet. Currently it is the property of the City Council of Barcelona and only has a on-line version.