Diario AS

Spanish sports newspaper

El País
Cinco Días

ISSN1888-6671Websiteas.com

Diario AS (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjaɾjo ˈas]) (sometime stylized as AS or As; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈas]) is a Spanish daily sports newspaper that concentrates particularly on football.

Profile

Diario AS is part of PRISA which also owns El País and Cinco Días.^[1] The paper particularly covers news of the Community of Madrid football teams: Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid, Getafe CF, CD Leganés, and Rayo Vallecano. It competes directly with MARCA. In addition to Madrid, the newspaper also has satellite bureaus in Barcelona, Bilbao, A Coruña, Seville, Valencia and Zaragoza.

In May 2012, the newspaper launched an English language sub-site offering original journalism and articles translated from the original Spanish by native English-language speakers, as well as their own content. The circulation of Diario AS was 181,172 copies in 2001^[2] and 176,892 copies in 2002.^[3] It rose to 214,654 copies in 2006.^[4]

References

^ Enric Castelló; David Domingo (2005). "Spanish media facing new media: a challenge to journalists?". International Journal of Iberian Studies. 18 (3). Retrieved 3 December 2014.
^ "Specialised and local press". Grupo PRISA. 2002. Archived from the original (Annual report) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
^ "Printed Media Group (GMI)". Grupo PRISA. 2003. Archived from the original (Annual report) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
^ Figures covering January to December 2006 Archived 16 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión. Retrieved 26 April 2007.