Resumen de Periodistes i comunicació social a la Catalunya del segle XX
Journalists and social communication in 20th-Century Catalonia [JOSEP MARIA CASASÚS I GURI] Throughout the 20th Century, Catalonia had its own peculiarities in the area of journalism and the press. The major ideological debates, political struggles and social and economic contradictions led the press to be used as a bloodless weapon, or as an essential instrument in dialectic combats. The awakening of Catalan nationalism, bolstered by the recovery of the linguistic, historical and cultural nationalism that had driven the Renaissance, tying in with that continental tendency, nevertheless took the form of a movement with local characteristics in Catalonia. Different stages, such as the «transition», which runs from the Restoration of the until the end of the First World War (1918), the stage of «modernisation» comprising the years between the wars (1919-1939) and others such as the resumption of the post-war, limitations on opinion and technical working conditions, and the new period that opened up with democracy and the explosion of opinions, of new and old journalists and new business projects. The ensemble of these stages in the history of Catalan press heralds a period in which business and professional initiatives proliferated all over Catalonia, albeit more particularly at local and county level, as well as in publications of specific sectors, associations and specialised publications. Catalonia is one of the European countries that has had most headlines in all types of newspapers.
