El Faro
El Faro is a Salvadoran online news outlet published in Spanish and widely regarded as a pioneering digital newspaper in Latin America. It is known internationally for in-depth investigative journalism on politics, corruption and organised crime across El Salvador and Central America. Its reporting has earned recognition and is frequently cited by global media.
El Faro at a glance
- Country
- El Salvador
- Kind of outlet
- Digital-native outlet
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- elfaro.net ↗
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How Crosswire groups El Faro
Crosswire groups El Faro as Centrist for comparisons within El Salvador'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 El Salvador, Diario CoLatino is listed as Left-leaning, while El Salvador and Diario El Salvador are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open El Faro beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where El Faro sits in El Salvador's press
El Faro is one of 6 outlets tracked in El Salvador, and one of 2 digital-native outlets among them — the other being Diario El Salvador. By outlets tracked, El Salvador ranks second 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 El Faro outside El Salvador, starting with Mexico and Central America, are Confidencial (Nicaragua), CRHoy (Costa Rica), Politico (United States) and 14ymedio (Cuba). Opening one of them beside El Faro is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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