El Telégrafo

El Telégrafo is generally regarded as left-leaning in its editorial orientation, according to widely cited media-bias assessments of Ecuador's press. In Ecuador, El Universo and El Comercio (EC) are listed as Centrist, while Teleamazonas is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open El Telégrafo beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Read El Telégrafo beside another title from Ecuador and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Two dailies from Ecuador covering the same day will usually agree on the facts and differ on the ordering: which story is worth the top of the page, how the headline characterises it, and which follow-ups get space. Those are El Telégrafo's editorial choices, and they are easiest to see side by side. Because El Telégrafo is listed as left-leaning, the sharpest contrast is usually a right-leaning title from Ecuador on the same morning: the facts rarely differ, but which consequence is treated as the story often does.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

El Telégrafo is one of 5 outlets tracked in Ecuador, and one of 3 daily newspapers among them — the others being El Universo and El Comercio (EC). By outlets tracked, Ecuador ranks 19th 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 Telégrafo outside Ecuador, starting with South America, are El Comercio (Peru), Últimas Noticias (Venezuela), El País (UY) (Uruguay) and ABC Color (Paraguay). Opening one of them beside El Telégrafo is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.