Draft:Briega

Briega is an independent information medium published in Cantabria (Spain), which is presented both in digital newspaper format and in a monthly paper newsletter. Founded in 2004, its editorial purpose focuses on feeding anti-authoritarian consciousness within social movements in the region.

History
The portal emerged on August 9, 2004 as a result of conversations held between fellow libertarians from western Cantabria who felt the need to create a counter-information project to expand the possibilities of disseminating the struggles that were taking place at that time in the region from a libertarian point of view. The first years had a limited publication frequency that increased until reaching a daily frequency in 2009 after the incorporation of collaborators from Santander. In 2010, a cyber attack left the website out of service for two months. Some of the coverage of the first decade addressing topics such as the protests against the implementation of a thermal power plant in Torrelavega, the Palencia-Reinosa-Santander high-speed line project, or the fracking projects that affected the region, as well as the mobilizations against the Bologna process or the 15-M Movement.

On April 4, 2018, the first paper issue of Briega was published, an eight-page monthly publication that is distributed free of charge mainly in Santander. In December 2023, the newsletter reached its 50th edition.

Editorial team
The editorial management of Briega, both in its digital version and in its printed publication, falls on the Briega Editorial Collective. All content generated by the collective is under a Creative Commons license in its Share Alike version (CC-BY-SA). The project is financially supported through fees, donations and specific activities.