Libertad Digital is an advocacy journalism

Advocacy journalism

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 online newspaper

Online newspaper

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 edited in Madrid

Madrid

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, Spain

Spain

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Its claims to be classic liberal, with several contributors often tilting to libertarian conservative

Right-libertarianism

Right-libertarianism names several related libertarian political philosophies which support capitalism. The term is typically used to differentiate privatist based forms of libertarianism from Left-libertarianism; which generally supports forms of economic democracy and...

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Origins

Founded by pundit Federico Jiménez Losantos

Federico Jiménez Losantos

Federico Jiménez Losantos is a popular and controversial Spanish pundit, being most known for his radio talk show, but also a TV host and literary author.He was born in Orihuela del Tremedal, Teruel, on September 15, 1951.-Education:...

, its first edition was released on March 8, 2000. Also was promoted by the economist

Economist

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 Alberto Recarte, who is the president of the Libertad Digital society, and Javier Rubio, who was its first editor.

The daily

Besides daily news, Libertad Digital is an opinion newspaper. It has nearly a hundred of contributors who write 12 columns a day. Since January 2005 the paper also has an ideas supplement from Monday to Friday. Among its best-known contributors are Amando de Miguel, Carlos Rodríguez Braun, César Vidal

César Vidal Manzanares

César Vidal Manzanares is a Spanish radio host, historian and author. He hosts La Linterna in Cadena COPE since 2004. A lawyer turned historian and then by request of his friend and host of La Mañana he became the host of La Linterna which currently is the second most popular radio show of Cadena...

, Pío Moa

Pío Moa

Luis Pío Moa Rodríguez better known as simply Pío Moa, is a Spanish writer and journalist. His specialised subject field is the history and origins of the Spanish Civil War, the Second Republic in Spain, Francoism and the various political movements of that era.During his youth, Moa was a radical...

, and Daniel Sirera

Daniel Sirera

Daniel Sirera Bellés is a Spanish politician. He served as the chairman of the People's Party in Catalonia from 2007–2008. He is currently a deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia for the constituency of Barcelona and is the leader of the PPC's parliamentary group.Sirera, who was born in...

. In 2004 the editorial Hoja Perenne published the first yearbook.

It includes the Cox & Forkum

Cox & Forkum

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 editorial cartoon

Editorial cartoon

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s and for a while an English version, The Spain Herald, which has been offline since June 2006.