Emergency journalism after a judicial closure

Abstract

The employees of the only newspaper published entirely in Basque (Euskaldunon Egunkaria), shut down by a judicial order for alleged terrorist connections, managed to publish another newspaper (Egunero) the day after the police intervention (February 21, 2003), and continued publishing a daily issue for four months, until the foundation of a new standard newspaper in Basque (Berria). This study analyses how a group of former employees of a media organization, dispossessed of all its premises and economic funds, managed to publish a new temporary newspaper for four months, in the context of an uncertain judicial situation.