ARGIA: Worker-Owned Basque centenary Media
2023-01-18 | ARGIA

ARGIA is a news media funded in 1919 in Pamplona and published in Basque language. At first religious – called Zeruko Argia, "light of heaven” –, forbidden during the fascist dictatorship in Spain from 1936 on, in the 1950s and 1960s it had managed to come back, avoid censorship and little by little become a journalistic project. In 1980 some workers bought the media from its religious owners, took out the "Zeruko” ("of heaven“) from the name forming... [+]