El Telégrafo
El Telégrafo is Ecuador's oldest newspaper, founded in 1884 in Guayaquil and now a state-owned, digital-first publication. It covers national politics, economy and culture with a historically pro-government, left-leaning orientation.
El Telégrafo at a glance
- Country
- Ecuador
- Region
- South America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Website
- eltelegrafo.com.ec ↗
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How Crosswire groups El Telégrafo
Crosswire groups El Telégrafo as Left-leaning for comparisons within Ecuador'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 Ecuador, El Universo and El Comercio (EC) are listed as Centrist, while Teleamazonas is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open El Telégrafo beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where El Telégrafo sits in Ecuador's press
El Telégrafo is one of 5 outlets tracked in Ecuador, and one of 3 daily newspapers among them — the others being El Universo and El Comercio (EC). By outlets tracked, Ecuador ranks 19th 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 Telégrafo outside Ecuador, starting with South America, are El Comercio (Peru), Últimas Noticias (Venezuela), El País (UY) (Uruguay) and ABC Color (Paraguay). Opening one of them beside El Telégrafo is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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