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Spanish: El gran diario de México (Mexico's great newspaper) | |
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Founder(s) | Félix Fulgencio Palavicini |
President | Juan Francisco Ealy Ortiz |
Editor | Juan Francisco Ealy Jr. |
Founded | 1916 |
Language | Spanish |
Headquarters | Mexico City, Mexico |
Website | www |
El Universal is a Mexican newspaper based in Mexico City.
El Universal was founded by Félix Palavicini and Emilio Rabasa in October 1916, in the city of Santiago de Querétaro to cover the end of the Mexican Revolution and the creation of the new Mexican Constitution. The circulation of the print edition of El Universal is more than 300,000 readers.
In 2013 the El Universal website claimed to have an average of more than 16 million unique visitors each month, with 140 million page views, and 4 million followers on Facebook. [1]
Aviso Oportuno [2] is the classifieds service of El Universal. The brand has become widely known in Mexico, and the phrase Aviso Oportuno is sometimes used as a generic term for the classifieds business. This brand has four sub-sites: Inmuebles, Vehículos, Empleos and Varios (Real Estate, Vehicles, Jobs and Miscellaneous).
News items are open to reader comments through a simple sign-up system which has resulted in many accusations of bias and propaganda. The system also tends towards anonymity and abuse by having questionable users and operators pass as average readers discrediting political and journalistic adversaries. [3]
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