El Heraldo
El Heraldo is a daily newspaper founded in 1933 in Barranquilla, the leading paper of Colombia's Caribbean region. It covers national and regional news with a historically liberal, broadly centrist editorial line.
El Heraldo at a glance
- Country
- Colombia
- Region
- South America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- elheraldo.co ↗
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How Crosswire groups El Heraldo
Crosswire groups El Heraldo as Centrist for comparisons within Colombia'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 Colombia, El Espectador is listed as Left-leaning, while Revista Semana and El Colombiano are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open El Heraldo beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where El Heraldo sits in Colombia's press
El Heraldo 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 Colombiano. 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 Heraldo outside Colombia, starting with South America, are Últimas Noticias (Venezuela), El Universo (Ecuador), El País (UY) (Uruguay) and ABC Color (Paraguay). Opening one of them beside El Heraldo is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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