Founded by Javier Moll, the company traces back its origins to 1978, with the creation of Prensa Canaria,[1] the editor of the morning newspaper La Provincia and the evening newspaper Diario de Las Palmas.

Yet the creation of Editorial Prensa Ibérica took place in 1984,[2] following the acquisition in a public auction of La Nueva España (Asturias), Levante-EMV (Valencia) and Información (Alicante) from the Medios de Comunicación Social del Estado [es], the State-owned media holding liquidated by the Felipe González's government,[3] a renaming of the Francoist Cadena de Prensa del Movimiento.

[3] The group consolidated together with its rival Vocento as the two largest regional media holdings in Spain.

[7][8] In 2021, Prensa Ibérica decided to move its headquarters from Barcelona to L'Hospitalet de Llobregat.

[9] In June 2021, the group hired Fernando Garea [es] to launch a new newspaper based in Madrid,[10] later disclosed to be named as El Periódico de España.