La Tercera
La Tercera is a daily newspaper based in Santiago and one of Chile's major titles. It provides broad coverage of national and international news, politics, business, and culture, and is generally regarded as centre-right in its editorial stance.
La Tercera at a glance
- Country
- Chile
- Region
- South America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Right-leaning
- Founded
- 1950
- Owner
- Grupo Copesa
- Published from
- Santiago
- Website
- latercera.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups La Tercera
Crosswire groups La Tercera as Right-leaning for comparisons within Chile's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Chile, El Mostrador is listed as Left-leaning, while Radio Bío-Bío and Cooperativa are listed as Centrist — so you can open La Tercera beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where La Tercera sits in Chile's press
La Tercera was founded in 1950, is published from Santiago and is owned by Grupo Copesa. It is one of 5 outlets tracked in Chile, and one of 2 daily newspapers among them — the other being El Mercurio. By outlets tracked, Chile ranks 15th 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 La Tercera outside Chile, starting with South America, are Clarín (Argentina), El Tiempo (Colombia), El Comercio (Peru) and Últimas Noticias (Venezuela). Opening one of them beside La Tercera is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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