Alternativas Económicas Explained

Editor:Andreu Missé
Editor Title:Editor
Frequency:Monthly
Category:News magazine
Publisher:Alternativas Económicas
Founded:2013
Country:Spain
Based:Barcelona
Language:Spanish
Website:Alternativas Económicas

Alternativas Económicas is a Spanish language monthly news magazine, which focuses on financial and social events, published in Barcelona, Spain. It is one of the publications which adopt slow journalism.[1]

History and profile

Alternativas Económicas was first published in April 2013.[2] Pere Rusiñol, Ariadna Trillas and Mariana Vilnitzky are the cofounders and editors of the magazine, which was modelled on Alternatives économiques, a French magazine published by a worker cooperative for journalists in France.[3] Alternativas Económicas is published monthly by the worker cooperative for Spanish journalists with the same name, Alternativas Económicas.[4] The Spanish Confederation of Worker Cooperatives is also among the members of the monthly.[4]

The headquarters of Alternativas Económicas is in Barcelona.[5] Andreu Missé is the editor of the magazine.[5] The contributors include Antonio Franco, Xavier Vidal-Folch, Ignacio Escolar, Joaquín Estefanía, Soledad Gallego-Díaz and Sebastián Serrano.[2] They are mostly journalists who previously worked for El País, Público and El Periódico de Catalunya.[4] The editorial team also includes specialists from different background.[4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Alejandro Barranquero Carretero. Garbiñe Jaurrieta Bariain. Slow Journalism in Spain. Journalism Practice. 2016. 10. 4. 530. 10.1080/17512786.2015.1124729. 220410028.
  2. Web site: Presentation of the magazine 'Alternativas Económicas' at the Faculty of Economics. University of Valencia. 1 January 2015. 30 April 2013.
  3. Web site: The State of Press Freedom in Spain. Open Society Foundations. 19 April 2015. Mission report. 2015.
  4. Web site: Alternativas económicas, a new Spanish magazine. Cicopa. 5 April 2013. 1 January 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150101225300/http://www.cicopa.coop/Alternativas-economicas-new.html. 1 January 2015. dead.
  5. News: Tobias Buck. La Caixa: Spain's quiet powerhouse. 19 April 2015. Financial Times. 9 April 2015.