El Salvador news, front pages compared
Crosswire tracks 6 major El Salvador 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 El Salvador media landscape on Crosswire
Crosswire lays El Salvador'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 6 titles tracked here span the spectrum — 1 we place on the left, 3 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 6 titles break down as 4 daily newspapers (see all daily newspapers worldwide) and 2 digital-native outlets (El Faro and Diario El Salvador). Crosswire lists no public-service broadcaster for El Salvador, so the fixed point in a comparison has to be a wire service or the most widely read daily instead.
El Salvador sits in Mexico and Central America, on Crosswire's Americas hub. By outlets tracked it is 1st of the 8 countries in Mexico and Central America and 2nd of the 35 across the Americas, where the average is 4.7 outlets per country. Its neighbours in Mexico and Central America with hubs of their own are Mexico (5), Guatemala (5), Honduras (5), Nicaragua (5), Costa Rica (5), Panama (5) and Belize (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 El Salvador's main news outlets?
Across El Salvador's editorial spectrum, Crosswire currently lists on the left, Diario CoLatino; near the center, La Prensa Gráfica, El Faro and Diario El Mundo; on the right, El Salvador and Diario El Salvador. 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 Salvador (elsalvador.com) is the digital brand associated with El Diario de Hoy, one of El Salvador's largest daily newspapers, published in Spanish. It covers national politics, crime, business, sport and society for a broad audience. The publication is traditionally regarded as having a conservative, centre-right editorial line within the Salvadoran media landscape.
La Prensa Gráfica is one of El Salvador's leading daily newspapers, published in Spanish. A long-established general-interest title, it covers national politics, the economy, crime and sport for readers across the country. Alongside its print edition, it operates a prominent news website and is among the most widely read papers in El Salvador.
El Faro is a Salvadoran online news outlet published in Spanish and widely regarded as a pioneering digital newspaper in Latin America. It is known internationally for in-depth investigative journalism on politics, corruption and organised crime across El Salvador and Central America. Its reporting has earned recognition and is frequently cited by global media.
Diario CoLatino is El Salvador's oldest surviving daily, based in San Salvador and run as a worker cooperative since the late 1980s. It is widely regarded as the country's most prominent left-leaning newspaper.
Diario El Mundo is a Salvadoran daily newspaper founded in 1967 and based in San Salvador. It covers national politics, the economy, sports and international news with general-interest reporting.
Diario El Salvador is a state-owned news outlet launched in 2021 and based in San Salvador. It is generally regarded as aligned with the government of President Nayib Bukele, covering national politics, economy and sports.
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