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The article is an historical and journalistic study about El Caso, an events weekly newspaper, which was published during 40 years in Spain. We analyze the historic evolution of this publication, from Franco’s dictatorship to the coming of the democracy, as well as its style and its striking covers. This newspaper was one of the most successful in Spain over the 20th century, was a remarkable example of profitable popular press, and its director, Eugenio Suárez, created one of the first Spanish Media groups.

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The article analyzes and describes the thematic contents of incident reports in the press. Incident reports belong to the area of specialized journalism, because of the topic it deals and broadcasts. Most of its contents are related to bad news. The two major thematic categories of incident reports are crimes and accidents. The types of incidents that are mainly featured in the press are homicides, traffic accidents, drug dealing and burglary.

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The paper analyses “El Caso Mundial” and “El Caso Criminal”, both of them event newspapers that emerged in Spain after the disappearance of "El Caso" (Madrid, 1952-1987), and was published by the businessman and journalist Joaquín Abad. Few research has been done on this newspaper that came to fill the gap left by "El Caso", directed by Eugenio Suárez. The sources consulted show that it was really a new journalistic publication, similar to the original one, but different. Therefore, it cannot be considered a second stage. It was printed and distributed from Almería for ten years (1987-1997), although it had a national scope. His informative style, content, directors and the causes that led to its completion on September 24, 1997.