Diario Extra
Diario Extra is a Costa Rican tabloid daily founded in 1978, the country's best-selling print newspaper. Known for crime and sensational coverage, its opinion section carries a wider range of left-leaning voices than most rivals.
Diario Extra at a glance
- Country
- Costa Rica
- Kind of outlet
- Tabloid
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Website
- diarioextra.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups Diario Extra
Crosswire groups Diario Extra as Left-leaning for comparisons within Costa Rica'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 Costa Rica, La Nación (CR) and CRHoy are listed as Centrist — so you can open Diario Extra beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Diario Extra sits in Costa Rica's press
Diario Extra is one of 5 outlets tracked in Costa Rica and the only tabloid tracked there. By outlets tracked, Costa Rica ranks eighth of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.
Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 3 of the 23 tabloids in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Diario Extra outside Costa Rica, starting with Mexico and Central America, are Crítica (Panama) and Crónica (Paraguay). Opening one of them beside Diario Extra is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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