El Mostrador
El Mostrador is Chile's first digital-native newspaper, launched in 2000 and based in Santiago. It is known for investigative reporting and opinion with a progressive, left-leaning editorial orientation.
El Mostrador at a glance
- Country
- Chile
- Region
- South America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Digital-native outlet
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Website
- elmostrador.cl ↗
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How Crosswire groups El Mostrador
Crosswire groups El Mostrador as Left-leaning for comparisons within Chile'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 Chile, Radio Bío-Bío and Cooperativa are listed as Centrist, while El Mercurio and La Tercera are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open El Mostrador beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where El Mostrador sits in Chile's press
El Mostrador is one of 5 outlets tracked in Chile and the only digital-native outlet tracked there. By outlets tracked, Chile ranks 15th 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 Mostrador outside Chile, starting with South America, are News Room (Guyana), Starnieuws (Suriname), Politico (United States) and Soy502 (Guatemala). Opening one of them beside El Mostrador is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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