El Espectador
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.
El Espectador at a glance
- Country
- Colombia
- Region
- South America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 1887
- Owner
- Grupo Valorem (the Santo Domingo family)
- Published from
- Bogotá
- Website
- elespectador.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups El Espectador
Crosswire groups El Espectador as Left-leaning for comparisons within Colombia'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 Colombia, El Tiempo and El Heraldo are listed as Centrist, while Revista Semana and El Colombiano are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open El Espectador beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where El Espectador sits in Colombia's press
El Espectador was founded in 1887, is published from Bogotá and is owned by Grupo Valorem (the Santo Domingo family). It is one of 5 outlets tracked in Colombia, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being El Tiempo, El Colombiano and El Heraldo. By outlets tracked, Colombia ranks 16th 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 Espectador outside Colombia, starting with South America, are Clarín (Argentina), El Mercurio (Chile), El Comercio (Peru) and Últimas Noticias (Venezuela). Opening one of them beside El Espectador is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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