El Confidencial
El Confidencial is a Spanish digital news outlet based in Madrid, known for investigative journalism with a particular focus on politics, economics, and business. It serves a broad online readership and is generally regarded as centrist in editorial orientation. The outlet has reported on several notable stories concerning Spanish public and corporate life.
El Confidencial at a glance
- Country
- Spain
- Region
- Southern Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Digital-native outlet
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 2001
- Owner
- Titania Compañía Editorial
- Published from
- Madrid
- Website
- elconfidencial.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups El Confidencial
Crosswire groups El Confidencial as Centrist for comparisons within Spain's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Spain, elDiario.es and Público are listed as Left-leaning, while ABC and La Razón are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open El Confidencial beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where El Confidencial sits in Spain's press
El Confidencial was founded in 2001, is published from Madrid and is owned by Titania Compañía Editorial. It is one of 13 outlets tracked in Spain, and one of 3 digital-native outlets among them — the others being elDiario.es and Público. By outlets tracked, Spain ranks first of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 31 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to El Confidencial outside Spain, starting with Southern Europe, are Nettavisen (Norway), Mediapart (France), Monaco Tribune (Monaco) and Seznam Zprávy (Czech Republic). Opening one of them beside El Confidencial is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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