Works D.E.A.
2003-2004

Arreu. A weekly service at the service of democratic rupture

Author: GARCÍA, Fernando

Director: Dr. Andreu Mayayo Artal, professor

Barcelona University, 2003-2004

The present research paper intends to study the role of a general information weekly published in Catalonia, Arreu, during the transition period between October 1976 and April 1977, that is, during the months that remained in the kiosk this is magazine, taking into account the political-communicative conditions of this period of time. Given the brevity of the experience, lasting only six months (24 issues), it was necessary to analyze the motivations of the project’s creation, as well as the causes of its rapid expiration, both internal factors (lack of capital, maladministration, personal decision, divisions among the members of the magazine) and of the external (political, economic, social, cultural and communicative contexts) that made the journalistic consolidation of the weekly newspaper impossible. The investigation started from the evidence of the real, but not organic, linking of the magazine to a certain political party, the Socialist Unified Party of Catalonia (PSUC), given the militancy or collaboration of its members in said organization. From this certainty, it was convenient to assess the extent to which the influence of this political party was decisive in the configuration of the weekly magazine, what was the degree of independence that was shown by the United States regarding it and how the publication of these characteristics was perceived by the PSUC. The evolution of this political party had to be taken into account, up to the time of the departure of the weekly magazine, at which moment it was immersed and how its later crisis could have affected the disappearance of Everywhere.