SPANISH NEWSPAPERS

Evening Star, Issue 22276, 29 February 1936, Page 7

SPANISH NEWSPAPERS

Madrid people are inveterate news- : paper readers, and most do not confine themselves to one daily, but take two or three of the score of daily papers which cater for Madrid’s 900,000 inhabitants. Spanish individualism _is well illustrated in that of 20 dailies not one resembles the other in 1 appearance. Two papers publish photogravure pictures in their daily editions, and one uses colour printing. Foreigners are always amazed by the lateness of the evening newspapers {says the Madrid correspondent of the ■‘ Observer ’). The first evening paper to appear does so well after 7 o’clock—when the evening papers in other ' European capitals have already long brought out their last editions—and one of the most popular evening papers : ‘ El Heraldo,’ does not appear on Mad- '* rid streets until a quarter to 9. The " streets are, of course, crowded at this hour, when Madrid takes its evening paseo,” or stroll. The morning papers are printed very late; not before 6 o’clock in the morning. It thus happens sometimes that some event of international importance which has happened during the night is reported ; at full in the Madrid morning papers, ' although the public of London and ■-' Paris will hear nothing of it until the noon editions of the evening papers come out.