Key facts
- Type
- Daily newspaper
- Format
- Compact
- Owner
- PRISA
- Founders
- José Ortega Spottorno Jesús de Polanco Juan Luis Cebrián
- Publisher
- Ediciones El País, S.L.
- Editor in chief
- Jan Martínez Ahrens
- Associate editor
- Miguel Jiménez
- Managing editor
- Mónica Ceberio
- Founded
- 4 May 1976 ; 50 years ago ( 1976-05-04 )
- Political alignment
- Center-left
- Language
- Spanish , Portuguese (online only, discontinued) , Catalan (online only), English (online only)
- Headquarters
- Madrid , Spain
- Circulation
- 52,024 Average print circulation (2024) , 403,840 news subcribers (as of December 2024)
- Sister newspapers
- Cinco Días , Diario AS
- Issn
- 0213-4608
- Website
- elpais .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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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 was the most-read general-interest daily newspaper in Spain's print press, with 854,000 readers, according to the first 2026 wave of the Estudio General de Medios (EGM). El País ranked fourth among Spain's most-read general-interest digital newspapers, with 17.6 million unique users, according to GfK DAM data (2025). It is also one of the Madrid dailies considered to be a national newspaper of record for Spain, along with El Mundo and ABC.
Its headquarters and central editorial staff are located in Madrid, although it is present in other Spanish cities. El País produces an America edition with subeditions for Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina. In 2024, El País developed a US edition, El País US, aimed at Hispanic readers.