Colombia news, front pages compared
Crosswire tracks 5 major Colombia news outlets. Preview their homepages side by side below — switch between two, three and four columns, go compact, or translate every page into your language. Or jump straight to a curated comparison by political leaning.
The Colombia media landscape on Crosswire
Crosswire lays Colombia's front pages next to one another so you can see which stories lead where, how headlines are framed, and what one outlet foregrounds that another leaves out. The 5 titles tracked here span the spectrum — 1 we place on the left, 2 near the centre and 2 on the right — so a comparison can genuinely cross editorial lines rather than sampling one side twice.
By kind of outlet, the 5 titles break down as 4 daily newspapers (see all daily newspapers worldwide) and 1 news magazine (Revista Semana). Crosswire lists no public-service broadcaster for Colombia, so the fixed point in a comparison has to be a wire service or the most widely read daily instead.
Colombia sits in South America, on Crosswire's Americas hub. By outlets tracked it is 4th of the 12 countries in South America and 8th of the 35 across the Americas, where the average is 4.7 outlets per country. Its neighbours in South America with hubs of their own are Brazil (5), Argentina (5), Chile (5), Peru (5), Venezuela (5), Ecuador (5), Uruguay (5), Paraguay (5), Bolivia (5), Guyana (4) and Suriname (3).
Leaning groupings are approximate guides drawn from widely cited media-bias assessments — see the methodology and what the labels can and can't tell you. Counts are taken from the directory as of .
Which are Colombia's main news outlets?
Across Colombia's editorial spectrum, Crosswire currently lists on the left, El Espectador; near the center, El Tiempo and El Heraldo; on the right, Revista Semana and El Colombiano. Each outlet below links to a full profile — its facts, editorial leaning and a live front-page preview — and the comparison view above shows any of them side by side.
El Tiempo is a daily newspaper based in Bogotá and the largest-circulation title in Colombia. It provides broad coverage of national and international news, politics, and economics for a general readership and is one of the country's most influential news organizations.
El Espectador is a daily newspaper based in Bogotá and one of Colombia's oldest titles. Known for its investigative reporting and liberal tradition, it covers national and international news, politics, and culture for an informed readership.
Revista Semana is a Colombian news magazine and website based in Bogotá. It is known for political reporting, analysis, and investigative journalism covering national and international affairs, and is one of the country's most widely read current-affairs publications.
El Colombiano is a daily newspaper based in Medellín, founded in 1912. It is the most influential paper in Colombia's Antioquia (Paisa) region and is traditionally conservative in editorial outlook.
El Heraldo is a daily newspaper founded in 1933 in Barranquilla, the leading paper of Colombia's Caribbean region. It covers national and regional news with a historically liberal, broadly centrist editorial line.
Explore other countries
Reading the news critically
The vocabulary and the method behind these comparisons.