El Comercio
El Comercio is a daily newspaper based in Lima and one of Peru's oldest and most influential titles. It is generally regarded as centre-right in its editorial orientation and provides broad coverage of national and international news, politics, and economics.
El Comercio at a glance
- Country
- Peru
- Region
- South America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Right-leaning
- Founded
- 1839
- Owner
- Grupo El Comercio (the Miró Quesada family)
- Published from
- Lima
- Website
- elcomercio.pe ↗
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How Crosswire groups El Comercio
Crosswire groups El Comercio as Right-leaning for comparisons within Peru's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Peru, La República is listed as Left-leaning, while Gestión and RPP Noticias are listed as Centrist — so you can open El Comercio beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where El Comercio sits in Peru's press
El Comercio was founded in 1839, is published from Lima and is owned by Grupo El Comercio (the Miró Quesada family). It is one of 5 outlets tracked in Peru, and one of 3 daily newspapers among them — the others being La República and El Peruano. By outlets tracked, Peru ranks 17th of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.
Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 85 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to El Comercio outside Peru, starting with South America, are Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil), Clarín (Argentina), El Mercurio (Chile) and El Tiempo (Colombia). Opening one of them beside El Comercio is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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