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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | CEET-Planeta DeAgostini |
| Publisher | CEET |
| Editor | Guillermo Santos |
| Founded | 1911 |
| Headquarters | Bogotá, Colombia |
| Website | eltiempo.com |
El Tiempo is a daily newspaper in Colombia, a non-tabloid daily with national distribution. As of 2004[update], it had the highest circulation in Colombia with an average weekday circulation of 314,000, rising to 453,000 for the Sunday edition.[1]
The newspaper was founded in 1911 by Alfonso Villegas Restrepo. In 1913 it was purchased by his brother-in-law, Eduardo Santos Montejo. El Tiempo's main shareholders were members of the Santos family, as part of the media conglomerate Casa Editorial El Tiempo. In 2007, the Spanish Grupo Planeta obtained majority ownership of the daily.
El Tiempo has enjoyed monopoly status in Colombian media as the only daily that circulates nationally, as most smaller dailies have limited distribution outside their own regions. El Espectador, El Tiempo's longtime rival, was reduced to a weekly publication following an internal financial crisis in 2001, but returned to the daily format on 11 May 2008.
Several members of the Santos family who were also El Tiempo shareholders have participated in Colombian politics, including Eduardo Santos Montejo, who was President of Colombia from 1938 to 1942. Also, most recently, Vicepresident Francisco Santos Calderón and Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos have served during President Álvaro Uribe's administration.
El Tiempo is published in six regional editions:
- Bogotá
- Caribe (Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Sincelejo, Riohacha and Valledupar)
- Medellín
- Café (Pereira, Manizales, Armenia)
- Cali (Cali, Popayán, Pasto)
- Region, for the remainder of the country.
On Sundays there are special sections. During around 3 years it published every Sunday a special section with a weekly selection of articles from The New York Times, translated to Spanish and using the same pictures. This section was dropped in January 2008 and since August 2008 it is published by rival newspaper El Espectador.
El Tiempo is part of Grupo de Diarios América (America Newspaper Group), an organization of eleven leading newspapers from eleven Latin American countries.
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External links
- (Spanish) El Tiempo web page
- (Spanish) Casa Editorial El Tiempo web page
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