El Pais

El País
El periódico global
("The global newspaper")
Offices of the newspaper in Madrid.
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact
Owner(s)PRISA
Founder(s)
  • José Ortega Spottorno
  • Jesús de Polanco
  • Juan Luis Cebrián
PublisherEdiciones El País, S.L.
Editor-in-chiefPepa Bueno
Associate editorJoaquín Estefanía
Managing editorsMonica Ceberio[1]
Founded4 May 1976 (1976-05-04)
Political alignmentCenter-left[2][3][4][5]
LanguageSpanish
Portuguese (online only, discontinued)[6]
Catalan (online only)
English (online only)
HeadquartersMadrid, Spain
Circulation52,024 Average print circulation (2024)[7]
403,840 news suscribers (as of December 2024)[8]
Sister newspapersCinco Días
Diario AS
ISSN0213-4608
Websiteelpais.com
Someone reading a copy of El Pais, in 2008

El Pais is Spain's biggest daily newspaper. In 2015, it had a circulation of about 221.390 copies. In 2020, almost 75.000 printed papers were sold. El Pais was first published shortly after Francisco Franco's death, in 1976.

References

  1. ↑ Lucinda Southern (January 30, 2017). "How Spanish newspaper El Pais is tackling fake news". Digiday. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
  2. ↑ Galluzzi, Anna (18 August 2014). Libraries and Public Perception: A Comparative Analysis of the European Press. Chandos Publishing. pp. 28–29. ISBN 9781843347446.
  3. ↑ Blitzer, Jonathan (31 January 2012). "The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: On 'El País'". The Nation. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Tremlett, Giles (4 October 2010). "El País saved as debts rise and sales fall". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2017. ... the country's most powerful media group, which owns the left-leaning El País newspaper ...
  5. ↑ Forcada, Daniel (2016-06-07). "'El País' consuma su giro a la derecha y ataca el apoyo mediático de Planeta a Podemos" ['El País' consummates its turn to the right and attacks Planeta's media support to Podemos]. El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  6. ↑ Keila Guimarães (26 November 2013). "El País lança edição digital no Brasil". Archived from the original on 3 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "La difusión de la prensa en papel no llega al millón de ejemplares diarios - Asociación de la Prensa de Málaga" (in Spanish). 2024-04-16. Retrieved 2025-05-04.
  8. ↑ País, El (2025-01-19). "EL PAÍS supera en solo cuatro años y medio los 400.000 suscriptores". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-05-04.