Estadão
Estadão (O Estado de S. Paulo) is a long-established daily newspaper based in São Paulo and one of Brazil's leading quality titles. It covers national and international news, politics, and economics in depth, and is generally regarded as centre-right and liberal in the economic sense.
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Is Estadão left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Crosswire lists Estadão as Center within Brazil's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side. In Brazil, Folha de S.Paulo and UOL are listed as Left-leaning, while O Globo is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Estadão beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
Read Estadão beside another title from Brazil and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Two dailies from Brazil 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 Estadão's editorial choices, and they are easiest to see side by side. Because Estadão is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Brazil either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
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 . Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.
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