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{{Infobox company
| name = Europa Press
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| foundation = 1953
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| language = [[Spanish]], [[Asturian]], [[Basque]], [[Catalan]], [[Galician]] and [[Valencian]] -->
| location_city = [[Madrid]]
| location_country = Spain
| industry = [[News media]]
| products = [[Wire service]]
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'''Europa Press''' is a Spanish [[news agency]] founded in 1953.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Europa Press |url=https://www.telecinco.es/autores/europa-press/ |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=[[Telecinco]] |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Busqueda de Autor {{!}} La Prensa Panama |url=https://www.prensa.com/autor/Europa%20Press/ |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=[[La Prensa (Panama City)]] |language=es}}</ref> It broadcasts news 24 hours a day, publishing 3,000 articles on average per day.{{cn|date=July 2024}} Originally founded as a book distribution company by five [[Monarchism|
== History ==
The name 'Europa' responds to the European vocation of this founding group. At the beginning, the name was accompanied with 'Documents and International reports'. Four years later, in 1957, due to prosperous business activity, Luca de Tena registered the company as Agencia Europa Press
This project was initially associated with Florentino Pérez Embid, Andrés Rueda, Luis Valls, Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora, Javier García Vinuesa, Antonio Fontán and Ángel Benito, among others. The agency has had four head offices, always in Madrid and is presently located at Paseo de la Castellana.
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In 1963, Antonio Herrero Losada was named director, a post he held until his retirement from active journalism in 1989. That same year, increased revenue along with the change of the head office led to substantial growth in the following years. In 1966, Europa Press started its informative service, competing with agencies like EFE, Logos, Pyresa, Fiel or Mencheta. A key person entered in the agency in 1968: Francisco Martín Fernández de Heredia. His personal and professional activities held the company avoid a shutdown in 1969. At the same time, he strengthened the business project in the following years until it became the solid multimedia group that it is today.
Despite the political pressures suffered, mainly in the second part of 1960s, especially from the [[Ministry of Information and Tourism|Information and Tourism Ministry]], run by Manuel Fraga (he wanted the agency to merge with EFE and he even asked clients to end their contracts with Europa Press), the agency made it through in part thanks to Francisco Martín, who had been named managing director shortly before this conflict. Francisco Martín (
In 1970, Europa Press started a new service that was called "Economic Summary", concerning political and economic information of the day and was later distributed by post to the clients. This information was easily transmitted because it circumvented the censorship that official channels suffered at that time. During the 1970s, Europa Press achieved some of its major successes, such as providing the worldwide exclusive of the death of the dictator [[Francisco Franco]] and on the following year the designation of [[Adolfo Suárez]] as [[Prime Minister of Spain]]. The press coverage of the disease and death of Francisco Franco resulted with the National Journalism Award in 1975.
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== Key personnel ==
* '''[[Patri Cutie]]'''
* '''[[Antonio Herrero Losada]]''': Was the director who could show [[truth]], [[freedom of speech]], and [[courageousness]] to the editors.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Antonio Herrero Losada y Europa Press |url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/tesis?codigo=163440 |publisher=[[Universidad de Navarra]] |date=2011 |language=es |last=José Apezarena}}</ref> He faced [[Sanctions (law)|penalties]] that threatened his position.{{sfn|Frías Alonso|2012|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=53M-tMRxDM4C&pg=PA9 "Prólogo"]|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=53M-tMRxDM4C&pg=PA11 11]}} When he retired in 1989, he wrote about the history of the Europa Press,{{sfn|Frías Alonso|2012|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=53M-tMRxDM4C&pg=PA9 "Prólogo"]|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=53M-tMRxDM4C&pg=PA11 11]}} though he died before he could finish in August 1992.{{sfn|Frías Alonso|2012|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=53M-tMRxDM4C&pg=PA9 "Prólogo"]|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=53M-tMRxDM4C&pg=PA12 12]}}
* '''[[José Mario Armero Alcántara]]''': He was president of Europa Press during decades after the end of the [[Francoist Spain]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1983-01-28 |title=Mario Armero, notario |language=es |work=[[El País]] |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1983/01/28/agenda/412556404_850215.html |access-date=2023-02-13 |issn=1134-6582}}</ref> He was an important figure to the [[Spanish transition to democracy]], serving for [[Juan Carlos I]] and [[Adolfo Suárez]].{{sfn|Frías Alonso|2012|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=53M-tMRxDM4C&pg=PA9 "Prólogo"]|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=53M-tMRxDM4C&pg=PA11 11]}} Armero Alcántar carried on writing the history of the agency which Herrero Losada started.{{sfn|Frías Alonso|2012|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=53M-tMRxDM4C&pg=PA9 "Prólogo"]|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=53M-tMRxDM4C&pg=PA12 12]}}
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