Antonio Franco Estadella

Antonio Franco Estadella (21 January 1947 – 23 September 2021) was a Spanish journalist. He served two times as editor-in-chief of El Periódico de Catalunya. He also worked as deputy editor of El País and as editor of its Catalan-language edition.

Biography Antonio Franco Estadella was born on 17 January 1947 in Barcelona, (his grandfather was Mayor of Lleida and member of Joventut Republicana). After dropping out of a degree in economics, he earned a degree as journalist at the Escuela de Periodismo de la Iglesia in 1968. helping to launch the Catalan-language edition. He returned to the helm of El Periódico in 1988, retiring in 2006.

Franco used to define himself as a left-wing person, and, in 2014, he embraced Guanyem Barcelona, which he described as "that necessary political and social force capable of transforming reality, from the left".

He died from cancer on 25 September 2021, in Barcelona. Creu de Sant Jordi (2006) Premio Antonio Asensio (2007)