El Tiempo is a daily newspaper in Colombia, a non-tabloid daily with national distribution. As of 2004, it had the highest circulation in Colombia with an average weekday circulation of 314,000, rising to 453,000 for the Sunday edition.
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 t...
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El Tiempo is a daily newspaper in Colombia, a non-tabloid daily with national distribution. As of 2004, it had the highest circulation in Colombia with an average weekday circulation of 314,000, rising to 453,000 for the Sunday edition.
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...
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