El Semanal de La Mancha is a weekly Spanish-language newspaper based in Castilla-La Mancha, a comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of central Spain comprising the provinces of Toledo, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, and Albacete. It was founded in 2009 by a group of local journalists and media professionals as a self-employment cooperative, following the closure of the regional weekly Canfali, which its founders said left a significant information and advertising gap in the La Mancha region, where at the time no printed newspapers with local coverage existed — only radio and television broadcasters and some provincial dailies published out of the city of Ciudad Real. The paper covers local news across more than a dozen municipalities — including Alcázar de San Juan, Tomelloso, and Campo de Criptana — and includes sections on opinion, politics, sports, agricultural news, and community listings, published in a print edition of 48 to 56 pages distributed at newsstands each Friday. In 2011, the newspaper launched its digital edition to reach younger and broader audiences.