CLOwnership & classification
Founded: 1950
Ownership
La Tercera is a Santiago daily founded on 7 July 1950 (as La Tercera de la Hora) by the Picó Cañas family. It is published by Consorcio Periodístico de Chile S.A. (COPESA), one of Chile's two dominant press groups, which has been controlled since the late 1980s by businessman Álvaro Saieh and his associates; Saieh held roughly 83% and by 2019 bought out remaining minority holders, consolidating control.
Funding
It is financed commercially through advertising, print sales and digital subscriptions, as part of the COPESA group's print and online portfolio. It is not state-funded.
Affiliation & stance
La Tercera's editorial line is broadly centre-right / liberal-conservative. Although owned by a powerful private conglomerate whose owner (Saieh) has banking and political-financing interests, it operates as a commercial, privately owned newspaper rather than a party or state organ, so it is classified INDEPENDENT (with the caveat of concentrated owner influence).
Editorial lean
- Our estimate
- Lean Right
- Measured from coverage
- Centerbased on 668
82/100
Factual
76/100
Objective
1281
Articles
1281
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