El Colombiano
El Colombiano is a daily newspaper based in Medellín, founded in 1912. It is the most influential paper in Colombia's Antioquia (Paisa) region and is traditionally conservative in editorial outlook.
El Colombiano at a glance
- Country
- Colombia
- Region
- South America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Right-leaning
- Website
- elcolombiano.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups El Colombiano
Crosswire groups El Colombiano as Right-leaning for comparisons within Colombia'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 Colombia, El Espectador is listed as Left-leaning, while El Tiempo and El Heraldo are listed as Centrist — so you can open El Colombiano beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where El Colombiano sits in Colombia's press
El Colombiano is one of 5 outlets tracked in Colombia, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being El Tiempo, El Espectador and El Heraldo. By outlets tracked, Colombia ranks 16th 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 El Colombiano outside Colombia, starting with South America, are El Comercio (Peru), Últimas Noticias (Venezuela), El Universo (Ecuador) and El País (UY) (Uruguay). Opening one of them beside El Colombiano is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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