Expansión
Expansión is Spain's leading financial and business daily newspaper, based in Madrid. It focuses on economics, markets, companies, finance, and economic policy, serving a professional and investor audience. Its coverage is generally pro-market in orientation. The publication operates both a print edition and a widely used website covering Spanish and international business news.
Expansión at a glance
- Country
- Spain
- Region
- Southern Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Business daily
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1986
- Owner
- Unidad Editorial (RCS MediaGroup)
- Published from
- Madrid
- Website
- expansion.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups Expansión
Crosswire groups Expansión as Centrist for comparisons within Spain'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 Spain, elDiario.es and Público are listed as Left-leaning, while ABC and La Razón are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Expansión beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Expansión sits in Spain's press
Expansión was founded in 1986, is published from Madrid and is owned by Unidad Editorial (RCS MediaGroup). It is one of 13 outlets tracked in Spain and the only business daily tracked there. By outlets tracked, Spain ranks first of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 13 of the 30 business dailies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Expansión outside Spain, starting with Southern Europe, are Handelsblatt (Germany), Les Echos (France), Financieele Dagblad (Netherlands) and L'Echo (Belgium). Opening one of them beside Expansión is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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