El Tiempo (Colombia)
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Juan Camilo Rodriguez |
| Founder(s) | Carlos Morales |
| Publisher | Casa Editorial El Tiempo S.A. |
| Editor-in-chief | Arturo Solano |
| Founded | 30 January 1911 |
| Political alignment | Centrism |
| Language | Spanish |
| Headquarters | Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Circulation | 1,137,483 Daily readers 1,921,571 Sunday readers(2012) |
| ISSN | 0121-9987 |
| OCLC number | 28894254 |
| Website | www |
El Tiempo (English: The Time) is a nationally distributed, broadsheet daily newspaper in Colombia. As of 2012[update], it had the highest circulation in Colombia with an average daily weekday of 1,137,483 readers, rising to 1,921,571 readers for the Sunday edition. After longtime rival El Espectador was reduced to a weekly publication following an internal financial crisis in 2001, El Tiempo enjoyed monopoly status in Colombian media as the only daily that circulated nationally, as most smaller dailies have limited distribution outside their own regions. However, El Espectador returned to the daily format on May 11, 2008.
From 1913 to 2007 El Tiempo's main shareholders were members of the Santos family. Several also participated in Colombian politics: Eduardo Santos Montejo was President of Colombia from 1938 to 1942, Francisco Santos Calderón served as Vice-President (2002–2010) and Juan Manuel Santos as Defense Minister (2006–2009) during Álvaro Uribe's administration. The last was elected President in 2010.
In 2007, Spain's Grupo Planeta acquired 55% of the Casa Editorial El Tiempo media group, including the newspaper and its associated TV channel Citytv Bogotá.
The newspaper was founded in 1911 by Alfonso Villegas Restrepo. In 1913 it was purchased by his brother-in-law, Eduardo Santos Montejo. From then until 2007, 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, but in 2012 sold majority ownership to Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo who now owns 86% of El Tiempo.
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