Observador

Observador
FormatOnline Newspaper
Owner(s)Observador On Time, S.A.
Founder(s)António Carrapatoso, José Manuel Fernandes, Rui Ramos[1]
PublisherJosé Manuel Fernandes
EditorMiguel Pinheiro
Political alignmentRight-Wing [2][3]
LanguagePortuguese
HeadquartersLisbon, Portugal
Circulation6,999,215 (Unique Visitors, November 2021)
Websitewww.observador.pt

Observador is a Portuguese online newspaper started on May 19, 2014. It is the only Portuguese-language newspaper in Portugal with a defined political orientation (right-wing liberalism).[4]

It is an online newspaper with no printed edition,[5] with the exception of the Anniversary[6] and Lifestyle editions.[7] Observador commits itself to publish and update information on a 24/7 basis.[8]

In the first month, it reported 630,000 visitors.[9] By August 2015, it reported six million visitors and 35 million pageviews.[10] In January 2020, it reported 6.79 million visitors and 51.34 million pageviews.[11]

In its first year, the newspaper won the "Launch of the Year" award in the Meios & Publicidade Awards. It also elected as newspaper of the year in 2018[12] by the same organization and it won the 2019 Edition of the Marktest award in "Press and Digital - Media".[13]

  1. ^ Fernandes, José Manuel (19 May 2014). "Tudo o que precisa de saber sobre o Observador". Observador. Observador On Time, S.A. Archived from the original on 13 October 2015.
  2. ^ https://medialab.iscte-iul.pt/wp-content/uploads/Comentario_2023_Final_Pub_7Mar2024.pdf
  3. ^ https://observador.pt/estatuto-editorial/
  4. ^ "Os intelectuais de direita estão a sair do armário". Público. 15 June 2014.
  5. ^ "Observador chega ao papel". Marketeer. 17 June 2015. Archived from the original on 18 June 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  6. ^ ""Observador" em revista única em papel". Clube Português da Imprensa.
  7. ^ "Observador lança-se (em papel) no Lifestyle". Briefing. 16 November 2017.
  8. ^ Lusa (10 May 2014). "Observador "online" a 19 de maio para "". Diário de Notícias da Madeira. Archived from the original on 13 October 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Observador atinge 4 milhões de 'page views' um mês após lançamento". Espalha-Factos. 23 June 2014.
  10. ^ "Ranking netScope de Agosto de 2015". Marktest. Archived from the original on 2020-02-24. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  11. ^ "Observador - Audiências" (PDF). Observador. January 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  12. ^ "Observador eleito jornal generalista de 2018". Observador. 20 September 2018.
  13. ^ "Observador ganha prémio "Imprensa e Digital — Media" da Marketeer". Observador. 31 May 2019.