La Jornada
La Jornada is a major Mexico City daily founded in 1984, widely recognized for its progressive, left-leaning editorial line. Hosted by the UNAM, its website offers free, paywall-free access to news covering politics, economy, society and culture.
La Jornada at a glance
- Country
- Mexico
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 1984
- Owner
- DEMOS (a cooperative of its journalists)
- Published from
- Mexico City
- Website
- jornada.com.mx ↗
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How Crosswire groups La Jornada
Crosswire groups La Jornada as Left-leaning for comparisons within Mexico'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 Mexico, El Universal and Milenio are listed as Centrist, while Reforma is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open La Jornada beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where La Jornada sits in Mexico's press
La Jornada was founded in 1984, is published from Mexico City and is owned by DEMOS (a cooperative of its journalists). It is one of 5 outlets tracked in Mexico, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being El Universal, Milenio and Reforma. By outlets tracked, Mexico ranks fourth 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 La Jornada outside Mexico, starting with Mexico and Central America, are La Prensa (Nicaragua), La Nación (CR) (Costa Rica), La Prensa (Panama) and Amandala (Belize). Opening one of them beside La Jornada is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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