List of newspapers in Mexico

Headquarters of El Universal in Mexico City.

Newspapers in Mexico have played a significant role in shaping public opinion, fostering political movements, and documenting the country's social and cultural evolution. From colonial-era publications to modern digital media, Mexico's press landscape reflects the nation's complex history and democratic development.

History

During the colonial period, Mexico's press was limited and strictly controlled by Spanish authorities. Following independence in the 19th century, newspapers became important platforms for political expression, often associated with liberal or conservative ideologies.

First issue of Regeneración , published August 7, 1900. The paper was founded by the Flores Magón brothers and became a key voice of opposition to the Porfirio Díaz regime.

In the early 20th century, the press played a critical role in the Mexican Revolution. Publications like Regeneración and El Hijo del Ahuizote were central in spreading liberal and anarchist ideas. Many journalists and editors were imprisoned or exiled due to their opposition to the government.

Pages of El Hijo del Ahuizote , a satirical newspaper published in the late 19th century.

Newspapers covering the assassination of President Álvaro Obregón and the execution of José de León Toral, displayed at the National Museum of the Revolution.

Following the revolution, newspapers continued to influence public discourse, although many were subject to censorship or state influence, especially during the 20th-century dominance of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Press freedom expanded significantly in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, although journalists in Mexico continue to face threats and violence.

Current newspapers

Newspaper	Days of publication	Headquarters	Established
ABC	Daily	Monterrey, Nuevo León [1]	1985
ABC		Toluca, Mexico [1]
La Afición		Mexico City
El Autónomo [2]		Guaymas, Sonora [2]
A.M. [3]		León, Guanajuato
Baja Times [4]	Bi-weekly [4]	Rosarito Beach, Baja California [4]	1978 [4]
Biznews [5]		Monterrey, Nuevo León
Cambio de Michoacán		Michoacán [6]
Campeche HOY [7]		Campeche City, Campeche [7]
Contexto [8]		Durango [6]
Coyuntura
Crítica [2]	Daily [2]	Hermosillo, Sonora [2]
Criterio		Hidalgo [8]
Crónica		Mexicali; most of Baja California, Baja California
La Crónica de Hoy [1]		Mexico City	1996
Cuarto Poder		Chiapas [6]
Cuestion [1]		Mexico City
El Debate		Culiacán, [6] Sinaloa
El Dia [1]		Mexico City
Diario de Acayucan [9]		Acayucan, Veracruz
Diario Amanecer			1980s [10]
El Diario [1]	Daily	Juarez, Chihuahua [6]
El Diario de Coahuila [8]		Saltillo, Coahuila
Diario de Colima [11]	Daily	Colima City, Colima [6]
El Diario de Guadalajara [1]	Daily	Jalisco
Diario de México [1]	Daily
El Diario de Monterrey [1]	Daily	Monterrey, Nuevo León
El Diario de Morelos [1]	Daily	Morelos
El Diario de Sonora	Daily	Sonora
Diario de Toluca [1]	Daily	Toluca, Mexico
Diario de Yucatán	Daily	Mérida, Yucatán [6]
Diario del Yaqui [2]	Daily	Ciudad Obregón, Sonora [2]	1942 (circa) [10]
Diario Eyipantla Milenio	Daily	San Andrés Tuxtla, [12] Veracruz
Diario Los Tuxtlas	Daily	San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz [13]
Diario Oficial de la Federación	Daily
Diario de Querétaro	Daily	Querétaro [6]
Diario Sonora de la Tarde	Daily	Ciudad Obregón, Sonora
Diario Xalapa	Daily	Xalapa, Veracruz [14] [6]
Diario Ventanas		Manzanillo, Colima
El Dictamen	Daily	Veracruz, Veracruz [15]	1898
El Eco de Nayarit [16]		Nayarit	1917 [16]
El Economista
Ecos de la Costa [11]		Colima City, Colima [11]
Ecos de la Cuenca en Tepalcatepec [17]	Weekly	Tepalcatepec, Michoacán [17]
Entorno Informativo [2]		Hermosillo, Sonora [2]
Especialistas en Medios[ citation needed ]
Esto [1]		Mexico City
Etcétera[ citation needed ]
Excélsior [1]		Mexico City
Express [8]		Tepic, Nayarit
La Extra		Morelia
El Financiero [1]
Frontera		Tijuana, Baja California [6]
Gente y Poder [8]		Tepic, Nayarit
Gringo Gazette		Baja California & Baja California Sur
Grupo Diario de Morelia La Extra	Daily	Michoacán [6]
Guadalajara Reporter		Jalisco [6]
Hidrocálido [18]		Aguascalientes [3]
El Heraldo		San Luis Potosí [1]
El Heraldo de Chihuahua [1]	Daily	Chihuahua, Chihuahua [6]	1927
El Heraldo de México		Mexico City [1]
El Heraldo de Saltillo [19]		Saltillo, Coahuila
El Heraldo de Tabasco [8]		Tabasco
El Heraldo de Toluca [1]		Toluca, Mexico
Imagen		Zacatecas [6]
El Imparcial [1]		Oaxaca [6]
El Imparcial (Hermosillo)		Hermosillo, Sonora [6] and Arizona	1937
El Informador [1]		Guadalajara, Jalisco [6]
La Jerga: Periodismo Gonzo Independiente[ citation needed ]
La Jornada [1]		Mexico City
Juárez Hoy		Ciudad Juárez
El Mañana (Nuevo Laredo)		Tamaulipas [6]
El Mañana (Reynosa)[ citation needed ]		Reynosa
El Mañana		Toluca, Mexico [1]
El Mercurio de Tamaulipas		Victoria, Tamaulipas [6]
Meridiano de Nayarit [1]		Nayarit
Mexican Online News[ citation needed ]
El Mexicano [1]		Tijuana, Baja California [6]
Mexico News Daily [20]	Daily	Puerto Escondito, Oaxaca [21]	2014
Milenio	Daily
Milenio (Monterrey) [5]	Daily	Nuevo León [3]
Mural		Guadalajara, [6] Jalisco
My Press		Mexico City [3]
El Nacional [1]		Guanajuato
El Nacional[ citation needed ]		Mexico City
The News		Mexico City [3]
Noroeste		Culiacán [6] and Mazatlán, Sinaloa
El Norte [1]		Monterrey, Nuevo León [6]
Noti Arandas		Arandas, [6] Jalisco
Notiver[ citation needed ]		Veracruz
Novedad Acapulco		Guerrero [6]
Novedades de Quintana Roo		Cancún, Quintana Roo [6]
Novedades de Tabasco		Tabasco [3]
Novedades de Yucatán		Yucatán [3]
Nuevo Día [2]		Nogales, Sonora [2]
Oaxaca Times		Oaxaca [6]
El Observador [1]		Tepic, Nayarit
El Occidental [1]		Jalisco [6]
La Opinión [3]		Puebla [6]
La Opinión de Poza Rica [3]		Poza Rica, [6] Veracruz
La Opinión de Torreón		Torreón, Coahuila [1]
Ovaciones [1]		Mexico City
Percepción [8]		Hermosillo, Sonora
El Periódico AM		Hidalgo, Guanajuato [6]
Periódico Central [22]		Puebla [6]
Periódico Correo		Guanajuato [3]
Periódico Vanguardia		Saltillo, Coahuila [6]
Por Esto!		Mérida, Yucatán [3]
El Porvenir [23] [1]		Monterrey, Nuevo León [6]
La Prensa [1]		Mexico City [3]
La Prensa (Tamaulipas) [8]		Tamaulipas
La Prensa Sonora [2]		Hermosillo, Sonora [2]
Primera Hora		Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
Primera Plana [2]		Hermosillo, Sonora [2]
Público[ citation needed ]		Guadalajara, Jalisco
Pulso		San Luis Potosí [6]
Realidades		Tepic, Nayarit
Récord		Mexico City [3]
Reflexión Informativa Oaxaca [8]		Oaxaca
Reforma [1]		Mexico City
El Regional de Sonora [2]		Ciudad Obregón, Sonora [2]
Ríodoce		Sinaloa [3]
Rumbo [1]		Toluca
Rumbo Nuevo [8]		Tabasco
Siglo 21
El Siglo de Durango		Durango [6]
El Siglo de Torreón [1]		Torreón, Coahuila [6]
Síntesis Hemerográfica Semanal[ citation needed ]	Weekly
El Sol		Monterrey, Nuevo León [1]
El Sol de Acapulco		Guerrero [6]
El Sol de Cuautla [8]		Cuautla, Morelos
El Sol de Cuernavaca [8]		Cuernavaca, Morelos
El Sol de Hermosillo [24]		Hermosillo, Sonora
El Sol de Irapuato		Guanajuato [6]
El Sol de Mazatlán [25]		Mazatlán
El Sol de México [1]		Mexico City
El Sol de Morelia [8]		Morelia, Michoacán
El Sol de Nayarit		Tepic, Nayarit [6]
El Sol de Puebla [1]		Puebla [6]
El Sol de San Luis		San Luis Potosí [6]
El Sol de Sinaloa [25]		Culiacán, Sinaloa
El Sol de Tampico		Tamaulipas [6]
El Sol de Tijuana [1]		Tijuana, Baja California
El Sol de Tlaxcala		Tlaxcala [6]
El Sol de Toluca [1]		Toluca [6]
El Sol de Zacatecas		Zacatecas [6]
El Sol de Zamora [8]		Zamora, Michoacán
El Sol del Bajío		Celaya, Guanajuato [6]
El Sol del Centro [18]		Aguascalientes [6]
Sol del Sur[ citation needed ]		Tamaulipas
El Sudcaliforniano [8]		La Paz, Baja California Sur [26]
El Sur		Acapulco, Guerrero [6]
El Sur de Campeche		Campeche [6]
Tabasco Hoy		Villahermosa, Tabasco [6]
Tiempo	Daily	Chihuahua [6]
El Tiempo de Durango[ citation needed ]		Durango, Durango
Tribuna de los Cabos [27]		San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur
Tribuna del Yaqui		Sonora [6]
Última Hora		Nuevo Laredo
Unión Cancún		Cancún, Quintana Roo
La Unión de Morelos		Cuernavaca, Morelos [6]
El Universal [1]
El Universal Querétaro [8]		Querétaro
Unión Guanajuato [8]		Guanajuato [8]
Unión Jalisco [8]		Jalisco [8]
Unión Puebla [8]		Puebla [8]
Unión Yucatán [8]		Yucatán [8]
Unomásuno		Mexico City [1]
Vanguardia [1]		Coahuila
El Vigía (Ensenada)		Ensenada, Baja California [6]
El Vigía (Guaymas) [2]		Guaymas, Sonora [2]
VivirAquí[ citation needed ]	Weekly
La Voz de la Frontera [1]		Baja California Norte [6]
La Voz de Michoacán [1]		Morelia, Michoacán [6]
La Voz de Monclova		Monclova, Coahuila De Zaragoza [3]
La Voz de Piedras Negras		Piedras Negras, Coahuila [3]
El Zócalo		Piedras Negras, Monclova, Acuña, Coahuila [6]

Defunct newspapers

• La Abeja de Chilpancingo  [ es ]
• Alkartu (1942–1947)
• The American Star
• La Chinaca  [ es ]
• Clamores  [ es ]
• El Colmillo Público  [ es ]
• Correo Americano del Sur  [ es ]
• El Demócrata Sinaloense (1919–1999) ^[28]
• L'Echo français (1902–1925)
• El Despertador Americano  [ es ]
• El Diario de Los Mochis
• Diario de México  [ es ]
• Diario del Hogar  [ es ] (1881–1914), founded by Filomeno Mata
• Diario Monitor  [ es ] (2004–2009)
• Don Simplicio  [ es ] (1845–1847)
• Gaceta de México (1722–1739)
• El Hijo del Ahuizote (1885–1903)
• El Ilustrador Americano  [ es ]
• El Ilustrador Nacional  [ es ]
• El Imparcial (1896–1914), established by Rafael Reyes Spíndola ^[29]
• Madera
• México Nuevo  [ es ]
• El Monitor Republicano  [ es ] (1846–1896), founded by Vicente García Torres
• Mujer Moderna  [ es ]
• El Mundo Ilustrado  [ es ] (1894–1914)
• El Museo Yucateco  [ es ] (1841–1842)
• Novedades de México , Mexico City
• La Orquesta (1861–1877)
• El Pensador Mexicano  [ es ]
• Regeneración
• Revista de Mérida  [ es ]
• Revista de Yucatán  [ es ]
• Semanario de las señoritas mexicanas  [ es ]
• Semanario Patriótico Americano  [ es ] (1812–1813)
• El Siglo Diez y Nueve  [ es ] (1841–1858)
• El Sol  [ es ] (1821–1824)
• El Sol de Guadalajara  [ es ] (1948–2015)
• Tribuna Campeche (1975–2025) ^[30]
• Vésper  [ es ]
• Violetas del Anáhuac  [ es ] (1887–1889)

See also

• Journalism in Mexico  [ es ]
• Proceso (magazine)
• Freedom of the press in Mexico
• Censorship in Mexico
• Media of Mexico

Notable journalists and writers

• Carmen Aristegui
• Julio Scherer García
• Elena Poniatowska
• Lydia Cacho
• Anabel Hernández
• Javier Valdez Cárdenas
• Francisco Ortiz Franco
• Miroslava Breach
• Regina Martínez Pérez
• Andrés Roemer
• Ángeles Mastretta
• Tamara De Anda
• es:Jenaro Villamil

Related topics

• Category:Mexican journalists
• Mexico News Daily
• Violence against journalists in Mexico
• List of journalists and media workers killed in Mexico
• Committee to Protect Journalists
• Radio in Mexico
• Television in Mexico
• List of Mexican writers

References

1. "Mexico: Directory: the Press". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. p. 2889+. ISBN   978-1-85743-255-8. Provincial daily newspapers
2. "Periódicos diarios de Sonora". prensaescrita.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 April 2021.
3. "Padrón Nacional de Medios Impresos" (in Spanish). Gobierno de México. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
4. "About Us". Baja Times. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
5. "Publicaciones periódicas en Nuevo León". Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Gobierno de Mexico. Archived from the original on March 7, 2020.
6. "Newspapers: Mexico". Latin American Network Information Center. University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved July 1, 2015. Regional circulation newspapers
7. "ódicos diarios de Campeche". prensaescrita.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 April 2021.
8. "Hemeroteca General de Periódicos". Centro de Estudios de la Democracia y Elecciones (in Spanish). UAM Iztapalapa . Retrieved 15 April 2021.
9. "TEV multa al Diario de Acayucan "La Voz de la Gente", por violencia política de género en contra de Mónica Robles Barajas". Billie Parker Noticias (in Spanish). 7 January 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
10. "International Coalition on Newspapers database". Chicago, US: Center for Research Libraries . Retrieved March 7, 2020.
11. "Periodicos diarios de Colima". prensaescrita.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 April 2021.
12. Diario Eyipantla Milenio
13. Diario Los Tuxtlas
14. "Diario Xalapa". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
15. El Dictamen
16. "Rindieron homenaje al periodista Manuel Sánchez Hidalgo". Agencia de Noticias MVT (in Spanish). 13 September 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
17. "Desaparece un periodista en el Estado de Michoacán". Reporters Without Borders (in Spanish). 4 December 2006. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
18. "Publicaciones periódicas en Aguascalientes". Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Gobierno de Mexico. Archived from the original on March 7, 2020.
19. Fernández, Hilda (12 October 2017). "Muere el fundador del periódico "El Heraldo de Saltillo"". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 April 2021.
20. "About Mexico News Daily, the leading source of Mexico news in English". Mexico News Daily. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
21. Bohne, Kate (2022-09-20). "A farewell message from our founder, Tony Richards". Mexico News Daily. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
22. "Periódico Central". periodicocentral.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 April 2021.
23. El Porvenir
24. "Sonora loses its first doctor to Covid-19; his wife died last week". Mexico News Daily (in Spanish). 30 April 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
25. "Hemeroteca Román Millán Maldonado". Archivo Histórico General del Estado de Sinaloa (in Spanish). Government of Sinaloa. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
26. "Periódicos diarios de Baja California Sur". prensaescrita.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 April 2021.
27. Zarazúa, Christian (1 February 2019). "Todo para Tribuna de Los Cabos". Peninsular Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 April 2021.
28. "El Demócrata sinaloense". Library of Congress. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
29. Henry Lepidus (1928). "The History of Mexican Journalism" (PDF). University of Missouri Bulletin. 29 (4) – via Core.ac.uk.
30. "Campeche: logra Layda Sansores cierre del diario 'Tribuna' por "difamación"". La Jornada (in Spanish). 20 June 2025. Retrieved 23 June 2025.

Further reading

in English

• "Mexico". Newspaper Directory of Latin America. Bulletin no. 42. January, 1892. Washington DC: International Bureau of the American Republics. 1892. hdl:2027/txu.059173022967634 – via HathiTrust.
• "What the People Read in Mexico". American Monthly Review of Reviews. 31. 1905 – via Google Books.
• "Mexico". Edward P. Remington's Annual Newspaper Directory. New York. 1911. hdl:2027/uc1.l0054921416 – via HathiTrust.
• Marvin Alisky. Growth of newspapers in Mexico's provinces. Journalism Quarterly 37, 1960.
• Benjamin T. Smith (2018). The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940–1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street. US: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN   978-1-4696-3811-9.
• Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford (2020), "Mexico", Digital News Report, UK, OCLC   854746354 {{citation}}: |author= has generic name (help)

in Spanish

• Stanley Robert Ross (1965). "El historiador y el periodismo mexicano". Historia mexicana (in Spanish). ISSN   0185-0172.
• Celia del Palacio Montiel (1998). "Historiografía de la prensa regional en Mexico". Comunicación y Sociedad (in Spanish) (33). S2CID   143002156.
• Belem Clark de Lara; Elisa Speckman Guerra, eds. (2005). La república de las letras: Publicaciones periódicas y otros impresos (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. ISBN   978-970-32-1087-9.
• Celia del Palacio Montiel (2006). "La prensa como objeto de estudio. Panorama actual de las formas de hacer historia de la prensa en México" (PDF). Comunicación y Sociedad (in Spanish) (5). Universidad de Guadalajara. ISSN   0188-252X – via Redalyc.

External links

• "Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de Mexico" [National Digital Newspaper Archive of Mexico] (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
• "Latin American & Mexican Online News". Research Guides. US: University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries.
• "Mexico profile - Media: the press", BBC News, UK, 4 October 2012
• "Latin American Newspapers: Mexico". Zona Latina.
• "Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press". Tucson, Arizona, US: University of Arizona Libraries.
• "Periódicos de México". WorldNewsList.
• "Mexico". Provisional Census of Current Latin American Newspaper Holdings in UK Libraries. UK: Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources. 14 April 2011.
• "Mexico". Union List of Current Newspapers and Selected Serials. US: Latin America North East Libraries Consortium – via Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials.