THE UNIVERSAL NEWS (1888-1986), the independent daily news, notices and announcements D' 
The year of the Universal Exposition of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bon April 15, 1888, the emergence of national newspaper El Noticiero Universal confirmed the new trend of information Catalan journalism. There were other attempts evening papers, but this was the first to resist. Its owner and director, Francisco Valencia Mencheta Peris, was a correspondent in WWII Carlina and founded several newspapers in Valencia. NEWS THE UNIVERSAL
, whose subtitle was "independent Daily News, notices and advertisements", had an afternoon edition and a night. This was advantageous, because it was a newspaper that reported not only of what happened yesterday, but also events during the day. He thus became the first evening newspaper in Spain, with plenty of varied and extensive information, powered by correspondents in each provincial capital and in European capitals, including telegraphic news.
in 1905 published a special issue commemorating the tercentenary of the work of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. "
Despite the Royal Decree of 1924 which obliged the Sunday rest most newspaper editorials, the newspaper also came out every day, being one of the few who were allowed to do so.
occasion of the celebration of the 1929 International Exhibition in Barcelona took several editions in color thematic supplements.
During the Second Republic was the editor Enric Tubau. In these years, while others pushed for newspaper photojournalism, THE UNIVERSAL NEWS continued very faithful with the same format and design, without pictures but with ads. The pictures were not mere decoration but a different language, who then resigned CIAL to continue the tradition. The ads, some of great beauty, served in part as a means of return for economic and finance part of the publication.
During the Civil War continued to edit, this time collectivized and controlled association, becoming a daily news of the day to day war but with heavy censorship of war. From its founding until then, this newspaper had remained open and informationally independent of any political tendency. In 1937 and 1938, due to restrictions on paper, the issues were reducing the number of pages. After Franco's troops arrived in Barcelona on January 26, 1939, the newspaper was allowed to continue to be published thanks to the return of their former owners.
During the 1940's, due to resource constraints of the postwar period, often the issues were only one or two leaves, ie two to four pages, without illustrations or photos and news briefs boxes limited or half-columns.
From the decade of 1950 the situation improved and gradually recovered each edition the number of original pages, even to edit a sports supplement on Monday, when most newspapers do not come out. This meant that in this day of the week was one of the best-selling newspapers. The director was at that time Luis G. Manegat, which was honored in 1956 and was named "Journalist of honor."
It should be noted that this newspaper, for most of his working life since its founding just changed its format, so in terms of scope and design remained almost unchanged appearance. There was only slight modifications of each epoch. Thus, until the 1930 front pages containing the now classic death notices, during the Second Republic stressed the ads, and from the 1960 photographic images incorporated in both the cover and inside. Among this decade and in 1970 came a new art section of three pages, by Rafael Santos Torroella, becoming the most comprehensive and heading higher level of the press published in Catalonia.
The wording of THE UNIVERSAL NEWS stood at number 35 Roger Street Llúria (then Via Laietana). Occupied an old building that was renovated in 1963 and modernized with a rationalist design by the architect Josep Maria Sostres Maluquer, earning him receive the award in 1965 FAD architecture.
During the Transition to his disappearance, the paper suffered a slow decline that would lead to its ultimate demise. It was then changed format for the first time, reducing its size and breaking with its traditional status as evening newspaper in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bmade him lose quality in every way. The Bank gave Barcelona a newspaper new printing plant in St. Just Desvern. Statements on the hotelier Joan Gaspart, the social entrepreneur Cuito Amadeu Hurtado, Josep Pallach friend and grandson of the former weekly newspaper editor in Catalan Viewpoint, and Aurelio Delgado, brother of Chief Minister Adolfo Suarez.
Between 1978 and 1981, provisionally, the union newspaper Solidaridad Obrera risen printed editions in print of the building of Roger de Llúria Street until his transfer in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. Tarin
The 1980 José Iglesias left the newspaper's management, provisionally from Jordi Domenech, who had served Deputy Director. Having bottomed out, El Noticiero Universal was acquired by the Uruguayan Carlos Antúnez José Leo, an adventurer who bought at low prices along with sports and weekly SAY DESTINY, burying them in a brilliant operation conducted between October 1984 during which he created UNITED DAILY society SA (Editorial Mencheta substitution), and May 1986, when it disappeared altogether.
currently in the drafting building owned by Agbar, occupies the ground floor the NOTI fashionably designed restaurant that serves creative French and Mediterranean.
