Centre-left
estimate · not a score
El País
🇪🇸ES ·
newspaper · independent
· elpais.com
| Spectrum |
Left
Centre-left
Centre
Centre-right
Right
State / loyalist
An estimate, not a score.
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| Founded | 1976-05-04 — first issue of the daily newspaper El País · source |
| Headquarters | Calle Miguel Yuste, 40, 28037 Madrid, Spain · source |
| Funding | Revenue base is reader subscriptions/circulation and advertising; ~350,000 subscribers reported as of December 2023 (Wikidata). Parent Promotora de Informaciones, S.A. (Grupo PRISA) is listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange (ticker PRS); no state ownership or state funding identified. The detailed PRISA shareholder breakdown below (Vivendi, Telefónica, Polanco family, Al Thani) is dated 22 January 2021 and was not reverified as current; only the Amber Capital stake was cross-checked against a more recently updated Wikidata record. |
| Identity | Wikipedia |
Bias we have measured in their reporting
Figure chosen
more than 70,000 crossed, the higher figure not mentioned — in 1 article
Word for the event
invasion, in quote marks and put in a party leader's mouth — in 1 article
Word for the event, attributed
same word, but in quotation marks and inside a politician's accusation — in 1 article
From 144 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting:
3 disputed
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.
Ownership
| Holder | Type | Stake | Control | Instrument | Since | Source |
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| Promotora de Informaciones, S.A. (Grupo PRISA) | company | not disclosed | yes | equity | — | link |
| Amber Capital UK LLP | company | 29.80% | yes | equity | — | link |
| Vivendi SE | company | 9.93% | — | equity | — | link |
| Telefónica, S.A. | company | 9.44% | — | equity | — | link |
| Polanco family (Rucandio, S.A.) | company | 7.61% | — | equity | — | link |
| Khalid Thani Abdullah Al Thani | person | 5.13% | — | equity | — | link |
Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.
Editorial control
Director (Editor-in-Chief)
Journalist; appointed Director (editor-in-chief) of El País on 6 June 2025, succeeding Pepa Bueno.
Journalists
Columnist · opinion
Journalist, writer and philosopher; regular opinion columnist listed on El País's own Opinión section; former director of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (1989-2011).
Columnist · opinion · culture
Journalist and novelist; regular columnist listed on El País's own Opinión section, known for short newspaper columns blending fiction and commentary.
Columnist · technology · opinion
Journalist and writer; regular columnist listed on El País's own Opinión section, writes on technology and surveillance.
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Covers
What we hold from them
Stories where they were checked and didn’t cover it
Le Figaro says Putin ordered a three-day halt on Kyiv. NOS says both presidents agreed one, with no end date.
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Euractiv puts 80,000 across the Ceuta border in two days. El Mundo says thousands, ABC says invasion
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Rzeczpospolita's headline detains two men. Wyborcza, quoting the police, counts one.
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Welt counts 1.4 million records in the Berlin leak; FAZ measures the same haul at 5.8 terabytes
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Police say 10,000 in Magdeburg, the organisers 20,000, Le Figaro's reporter a few thousand
— we have never been able to read this outlet
Welt: "classified as confirmed far-right". The agency copy taz runs: "far-right in parts"
— read, nothing on this event
HotNews says 13%, Digi24 says "peste 7%" — one Hidroelectrica price rise
— read, nothing on this event
Efimerida ton Syntakton calls it "the crime at Tempi", Kathimerini calls it "the rail accident"
— read, nothing on this event
taz names „Daniel V.“; Welt and the SZ say only „ein 48-Jähriger aus Gevelsberg“
— read, nothing on this event
Budapest says conduct "incompatible with diplomatic status"; Magyar Nemzet says it was to fit "the European mainstream"
— read, nothing on this event