El Mundo
El Mundo is a major Spanish daily newspaper based in Madrid, known for its investigative journalism and broad national readership. It is generally characterised as centre-right in editorial orientation and covers politics, economics, society, sport, and culture across Spain and abroad. Alongside its print edition, it operates one of the country's most visited news websites.
El Mundo at a glance
- Country
- Spain
- Region
- Southern Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1989
- Owner
- Unidad Editorial (RCS MediaGroup)
- Published from
- Madrid
- Website
- elmundo.es ↗
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How Crosswire groups El Mundo
Crosswire groups El Mundo 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 Mundo beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where El Mundo sits in Spain's press
El Mundo was founded in 1989, is published from Madrid and is owned by Unidad Editorial (RCS MediaGroup). It is one of 13 outlets tracked in Spain, and one of 7 daily newspapers among them — the others being El País, ABC, La Vanguardia, El Periódico, 20 Minutos and La Razón. 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 109 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to El Mundo outside Spain, starting with Southern Europe, are Público (Portugal), Kathimerini (Greece), Times of Malta (Malta) and Cyprus Mail (Cyprus). Opening one of them beside El Mundo is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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