El Universal
El Universal is a major daily newspaper based in Mexico City and one of Mexico's most established titles. It provides broad coverage of national and international news, politics, economics, and culture for a general readership across print and digital platforms.
El Universal at a glance
- Country
- Mexico
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1916
- Owner
- Grupo El Universal (the Ealy Ortiz family)
- Published from
- Mexico City
- Website
- eluniversal.com.mx ↗
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How Crosswire groups El Universal
Crosswire groups El Universal as Centrist for comparisons within Mexico'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 Mexico, La Jornada is listed as Left-leaning, while Reforma is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open El Universal beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where El Universal sits in Mexico's press
El Universal was founded in 1916, is published from Mexico City and is owned by Grupo El Universal (the Ealy Ortiz family). It is one of 5 outlets tracked in Mexico, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being Milenio, Reforma and La Jornada. By outlets tracked, Mexico ranks fourth 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 Universal outside Mexico, starting with Mexico and Central America, are Prensa Libre (Guatemala), El Salvador (El Salvador), La Prensa (Honduras) and La Prensa (Nicaragua). Opening one of them beside El Universal is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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