Now Spain's two biggest-selling daily newspaper, El Pais and El Mundo, are planning mass job cuts too, says Fernando Cano, editor of the specialist media news site prnoticias.com.

El Mundo plans to lay off a third of its journalists, cutting some 195 jobs, and El Pais is likely to make comparable cuts, he said.

The left-wing daily Publico, which champions victims of the economic crisis and criticises the ruling class, now has only an online presence since it scrapped its print edition in February with the loss of 160 jobs.

"It is a situation of unemployment and also of precariousness, because salaries have fallen in all the media," Gonzalez said.

Cano added: "They must do the same work with fewer people and those who remain have their salaries reduced. They are under more pressure and must work more while earning less."

It is harming the quality of news coverage, he argued.

"If a news organization is so weakened, it cannot fulfill its role of guaranteeing the citizens' right to free information," Gonzalez said.

"If it receives information that is well presented, it gets published or broadcast directly, without checking or digging to see what lies behind it."

As in the case of Publico, falling advertising revenue is the cause.

Cano says that advertising revenues have fallen by 22 percent in the press, 17 percent in television and 11 percent in radio.

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