María Luz Morales, director of La Vanguardia (1936-1937)

Abstract

María Luz Morales ran the newspaper La Vanguardia between August 1936 and February 1937, during the Spanish civil war. It is, as is known, the first woman to run a national newspaper in Spain. This article sets out the conditions in which the journalist accepted a completely unexpected work, which came to her because of the Agustí Calvet, Gaziel’s exile in Paris, at the end of July 1936. Although Morales assumes the position provisionally, the management that she undertakes in the most important newspaper in Barcelona surprise by the clarity of her way of understanding journalism.