The newspaper can be traced to 1854, when
Mariano Pérez Mínguez and
Pascual Pastor created
El Avisador ("The Reminder"). In 1856, this paper merged with a local competitor,
El Correo de Castilla ("The Castile Courier").
El Norte de Castilla was established in April 1856 by the amalgamation of these two papers; the first issue of the newly formed paper was published on 17 October 1856. They occupied the positions of director and manager, respectively. It was under their leadership that the paper was published daily. From 1958 to 1963, the director was
Miguel Delibes, who later become one of Spain's greatest novelists. Among the young journalists then working for Delibes,
Francisco Umbral started here, leaving for Madrid in 1961, where he became a writer, and
Manu Leguineche would become a war correspondent. From 1963 to 1967, Delibes's position was filled by Félix Antonio González, a Spanish poet. In 1992, the publication was integrated into the "Grupo Correo", which was later subsumed by
Grupo Vocento. The illustrator José Orcajo was a cartoonist at the paper at this time. As of March 2014 the chairman of the board was Alejandro Royo-Villanova, and the CEO was Ángel de las Heras.
El Norte de Castilla launched its digital edition in 1997. Its web page offers three primary services: multimedia service, interactivity with subscribers via blogs, and hypertext interpolation. The website is ranked as the 24,055th most visited website in the world, and the 703rd most visited in Spain. ==References==