The last newspaper editors of the Republican Barcelona

Abstract

The newspapers of the city of Barcelona experienced the civil war with the confiscation of the publishing companies by the Generalitat, political parties and unions. New newspaper publishers appointed new editors to work to their liking. The communication focuses on the profiles of the professionals who took on these roles and their luck at the end of the conflict. Exile was the unanimous choice of the directors, and there was a diaspora of Catalan journalists in the territories of Europe and America. But shortly after the end of the conflict began the return to Spain of some of these journalists, who had different luck. Some of the cases are shocking because of the placid trajectory they had when returning to a territory dominated by a dictatorship that shot and imprisoned the most significant people of the republican regime. In order to shed light on this phenomenon, the bibliography of memoirs on the subject will be analyzed, the documentation available in the historical archives will be examined and attempts will be made to establish patterns of behaviour to try to understand the differences that occurred between others.