El Nacional
El Nacional is a Dominican daily newspaper published in Spanish and based in Santo Domingo. A long-established general-interest title, it covers national politics, crime, sport and society for readers across the Dominican Republic. It is among the country's recognised daily papers and maintains an active online edition for a broad domestic audience.
El Nacional at a glance
- Country
- Dominican Republic
- Region
- The Caribbean · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- elnacional.com.do ↗
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How Crosswire groups El Nacional
Crosswire groups El Nacional as Centrist for comparisons within the Dominican Republic'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 the Dominican Republic, Acento is listed as Left-leaning — so you can open El Nacional beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where El Nacional sits in the Dominican Republic's press
El Nacional is one of 5 outlets tracked in the Dominican Republic, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being Listín Diario, Diario Libre and El Caribe. By outlets tracked, the Dominican Republic ranks tenth 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 Nacional outside the Dominican Republic, starting with The Caribbean, are The Gleaner (Jamaica), Trinidad Guardian (Trinidad and Tobago), Nation News (Barbados) and The Nassau Guardian (Bahamas). Opening one of them beside El Nacional is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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