El País
El País (Spanish: [el paˈis] ⓘ; lit. 'The Country') is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. El País is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA.
El País newspaper (16 February 2015) | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Compact |
| Owner(s) | PRISA |
| Founder(s) | |
| Publisher | Ediciones El País, S.L. |
| Editor-in-chief | Pepa Bueno |
| Associate editor | Joaquín Estefanía |
| Managing editor | Monica Ceberio |
| Founded | 4 May 1976 |
| Political alignment | Center-left |
| Language | Spanish Portuguese (online only, discontinued) Catalan (online only) English (online only) |
| Headquarters | Madrid, Spain |
| Circulation | 102,750 (2022) |
| Sister newspapers | Cinco Días Diario AS |
| ISSN | 0213-4608 |
| Website | elpais |
It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain as of December 2017. El País is the most read newspaper in Spanish online and one of the Madrid dailies considered to be a national newspaper of record for Spain (along with El Mundo and ABC). In 2018, its number of daily sales were 138,000.
Its headquarters and central editorial staff are located in Madrid, although there are regional offices in the principal Spanish cities (Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Bilbao, and Santiago de Compostela) where regional editions were produced until 2015. El País also produces a world edition in Madrid that is available online in English and in Spanish (Latin America).