El Tiempo
El Tiempo is a daily newspaper based in Bogotá and the largest-circulation title in Colombia. It provides broad coverage of national and international news, politics, and economics for a general readership and is one of the country's most influential news organizations.
El Tiempo at a glance
- Country
- Colombia
- Region
- South America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1911
- Owner
- Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo
- Published from
- Bogotá
- Website
- eltiempo.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups El Tiempo
Crosswire groups El Tiempo as Centrist for comparisons within Colombia'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 Colombia, El Espectador is listed as Left-leaning, while Revista Semana and El Colombiano are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open El Tiempo beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where El Tiempo sits in Colombia's press
El Tiempo was founded in 1911, is published from Bogotá and is owned by Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo. It is one of 5 outlets tracked in Colombia, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being El Espectador, 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 Tiempo outside Colombia, starting with South America, are Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil), Clarín (Argentina), El Mercurio (Chile) and El Comercio (Peru). Opening one of them beside El Tiempo is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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