Type | Daily newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Projectos e Estudos de Imprensa |
Founded | 22 September 1942 |
Language | Portuguese |
Ceased publication | 1990 |
Headquarters | Lisbon |
Country | Portugal |
Sister newspapers | Record |
ISSN | 0870-1962 |
OCLC number | 436532296 |
Diário Popular was a daily newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal, between 1942 and 1990. [1]
Diário Popular was first published on 22 September 1942. [2] [3] Its headquarters was in Lisbon. [2] [4] It was one of two Portuguese newspapers published in Angola during the colonial rule. [5] The other was Jornal de Notícias. [5] In the 1960s Diário Popular was acquired by the Balsemão family. [6]
Diário Popular was the organizer of the first journalism program in Portugal which was held in 1966. [7] In the late 1960s the paper was acquired by the Quina group, a family company. [6] In 1971 it was one of two Portuguese best-selling newspapers. [2]
Diário Popular belonged to the Banco Borges and Irmão, a bank, before the Carnation revolution. [2] [8] The paper was nationalized following the revolution in 1974 along with other private dailies and publications. [6] [9] It began to adopt a communist stance after its acquisition by the communists in October 1975. [6] [10] In May 1978 the paper had a left-wing political stance. [6]
The paper sold 73,000 copies in October 1975 and 66,000 copies in May 1978. [6]
Diário Popular was privatized in 1989 and was acquired by a company, Projectos e Estudos de Imprensa (PEI), which also became the owner of the sports paper Record. [4] The company was headed by Pedro Santana Lopes, a member of the Social Democratic Party. [4] Diário Popular ceased publication in 1990. [9]