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

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.