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La Voz de Galicia

Spanish daily newspaper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ3312427 ↗
Source-derived summary

La Voz de Galicia (lit. 'The Voice of Galicia') is the third-largest general-interest newspaper in Spain, with a nationwide audience of 395,000, according to data from the second wave of the 2024 General Media Study. In Galicia, it is the leading publication, holding a 63% market share. Its digital edition is the leading news website in the region. It is written primarily in Spanish with Galician used in the cultural and opinion sections.

Founded in 1882, it is the parent company of the first Galician multimedia group, Corporación Voz de Galicia, with a presence in all fields of communication. In addition to La Voz de Galicia, it also includes RadioVoz, Voz Audiovisual, Sondaxe, La Voz de Asturias, Canal Voz, Galicia Editorial and Distribuidora Gallega de Publicaciones.

In early 2019, the newspaper undertook a profound reorganization, fully integrating its print and digital editions to adapt to the changing media landscape and to support the paid content model launched in April of that year.

On 28 August 2024, Santiago Rey Fernández-Latorre, owner and editor of La Voz de Galicia, died. According to his will, the Santiago Rey Fernández-Latorre Foundation inherits La Voz de Galicia and other companies that form Corporación Voz de Galicia and Lois Blanco Penas is appointed president of the Foundation. In October 2024 the succession process is completed with the appointment of Lois Blanco as president of Corporación La Voz de Galicia.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “La Voz de Galicia” is spanish daily newspaper. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Galicia, Spanish and daily, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024, 1882, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1882-01-01. For this dossier, Galicia, Spanish and daily is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “spanish daily newspaper” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3312427. VIAF identifies the subject as 167485523. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024, 1882 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “La Voz de Galicia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.