What is happening behind the daily Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia?

From various sources you will know that La Vanguardia is printed since 1881. It is one of the oldest dailies in Spain. Currently it is the number one newspaper in Catalonia. Since 2011 it is translated with a dedication for them, in Catalan. However in the following article you will see how it looks from the back.

The building of La Vanguardia, Avinguda Diagonal 477.

At the very tall building – as long as the Avinguda Diagonal seems to be – are the headquarters of La Vanguardia located. To my surprise, the distribution of the newspaper takes place only on two floors. Interestingly, before the crisis, which started in 2009, the publishing house was operating on thirteenth floors of this building. In these days more space was necessary. Why? Because of more staff who needed work space. Currently La Vanguardia has a team of five photographers, at that time the number was much higher. 

Let´s get inside La Vanguardia  

I have to surprise you, but I felt disappointed. I never expected that in the news room such as La Vanguardia I could feel an atmosphere as in a library. Silence, peace and just sounds of ticking of the keyboard. It was because the fact that the visit took place on Monday. This is the day of rest after an intense work weekend. On this afternoon some journalist worked outside the office. During the evening they had to hand in their articles.

At La Vanguardia I was mostly interested in the automatic translation of articles from Spanish into Catalan. When you have a finished news article you copy it in this software. It translates the language from Spanish into Catalan. You have to press just one button. But it needs a human to correct mistakes which are shown by the software.

Written by Kinga Kachnik & Hannah Mülders 

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