El Tiempo (Colombia)

For other uses, see El Tiempo (disambiguation).
El Tiempo
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo
Founder(s)Alfonso Villegas Restrepo
PublisherCasa Editorial El Tiempo S.A.
Editor-in-chiefAndrés Mompotes
Founded30 January 1911 (1911-01-30)
Political alignmentLiberal conservatism
Centre-right
LanguageSpanish
HeadquartersBogotá, D.C., Colombia
Circulation1,137,483 Daily readers
1,921,571 Sunday readers (2012)[1]
ISSN0121-9987
OCLC number28894254
Websitewww.eltiempo.com
First Edition of El Tiempo using its now traditional logo, published on May 1st, 1917. The first edition of the newspaper was published 6 years before, in 1911.

El Tiempo (English: "Time" or "The Times") is a nationally distributed broadsheet daily newspaper in Colombia launched on January 30, 1911. As of 2019, El Tiempo had the highest circulation in Colombia with an average daily weekday of 1,137,483 readers, rising to 1,921,571 readers for the Sunday edition.[1]

From 1913 to 2007, El Tiempo's main shareholders were members of the Santos family. Several also participated in Colombian politics: Eduardo Santos Montejo was President of Colombia from 1938 to 1942. Francisco Santos Calderón served as Vice-President (2002–2010). And Juan Manuel Santos as Defense Minister (2006–2009) during Álvaro Uribe's administration; Juan Manuel was elected president of Colombia in 2010 and served in that position until 2018.[2]

In 2007, Spanish Grupo Planeta acquired 55% of the Casa Editorial El Tiempo media group, including the newspaper and its associated TV channel Citytv Bogotá.[3] In 2012, businessman Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo bought the shares of Planeta, the Santos family and other small shareholders, becoming the only owner of the newspaper.[4][5] El Tiempo is considered a newspaper of record for Colombia.[6][7]

  1. ^ a b "Estudio revela que El Tiempo cuenta con más lectores diarios" [Studies show that El Tiempo has the highest daily readers]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). Bogotá. 2012-05-12. ISSN 0121-9987. OCLC 28894254. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
  2. ^ McDermott, Jeremy (2010-08-04). "How President Alvaro Uribe changed Colombia". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
  3. ^ Committee to Protect Journalists. Attacks on the Press in 2007 - Colombia, February 2008
  4. ^ Semana (2012-04-19). "Sarmiento Angulo oficializa compra de El Tiempo". Semana (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  5. ^ El Tiempo, Casa Editorial. "Sarmiento Angulo es dueño de la totalidad de EL TIEMPO". Portafolio.co (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
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  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference NOR2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).