Acento
Acento is a Dominican digital news outlet founded in 2012 by a group of journalists and academics. It offers national news, opinion and investigative content with a progressive, center-left editorial perspective.
Acento at a glance
- Country
- Dominican Republic
- Region
- The Caribbean · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Digital-native outlet
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Website
- acento.com.do ↗
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How Crosswire groups Acento
Crosswire groups Acento as Left-leaning for comparisons within the Dominican Republic'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 the Dominican Republic, Listín Diario and Diario Libre are listed as Centrist — so you can open Acento beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Acento sits in the Dominican Republic's press
Acento is one of 5 outlets tracked in the Dominican Republic and the only digital-native outlet tracked there. By outlets tracked, the Dominican Republic ranks tenth of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.
Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 35 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Acento outside the Dominican Republic, starting with The Caribbean, are Barbados Today (Barbados), Eyewitness News (Bahamas), Antigua News Room (Antigua & Barbuda) and Emonews (Dominica). Opening one of them beside Acento is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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