''El Punt'' (, ) was a Catalan daily

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based in Girona,

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(Spain). The newspaper was renamed in 1990 from the original ''Punt Diari'' ('Daily Point'). It was published between 24 February 1979 and 31 July 2011.

History and profile

The newspaper was founded on 24 February 1979. In the beginning the paper was only circulated in the

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, but from 11 September 2004 it became available in the province of Barcelona. By 2008 it had seven editions: Barcelona, Girona,

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nord, Maresme,

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, Penedès, and

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. On 31 July 2011, the newspaper merged with the newspaper '' Avui'', creating the new newspaper ''El Punt Avui''. ''El Punt'', however, kept its own edition for the Girona area, where the original ''El Punt'' newspaper began. The Catalan government subsidised those Catalan newspapers with at least one

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edition. In 2008, ''El Punt'' was the most subsidised of all in terms of circulation and funds granted, having received almost two million

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s, which amounts to 72 euros a year per newspaper sold per day, or almost 20 Euro cent per newspaper actually sold.

References

External links

''El Punt Avui''
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