La Prensa
La Prensa is Nicaragua's oldest and most prominent daily, founded in 1926, with a long center-right, anti-Sandinista editorial tradition. After its assets were seized in 2021 it operates online from exile, with freely accessible headlines.
La Prensa at a glance
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Right-leaning
- Website
- laprensani.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups La Prensa
Crosswire groups La Prensa as Right-leaning for comparisons within Nicaragua'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 Nicaragua, Canal 4 (Multinoticias) is listed as Left-leaning, while Confidencial and 100% Noticias are listed as Centrist — so you can open La Prensa beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where La Prensa sits in Nicaragua's press
La Prensa is one of 5 outlets tracked in Nicaragua and the only daily newspaper tracked there. By outlets tracked, Nicaragua ranks seventh 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 Prensa outside Nicaragua, starting with Mexico and Central America, are El Universal (Mexico), Prensa Libre (Guatemala), El Salvador (El Salvador) and La Prensa (Honduras). Opening one of them beside La Prensa is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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