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La Nación (Argentina)

La Nación
Logo La Nación.svg
Lanacion 1 arg 1870.jpg
Cover to #1, 4 January 1870
Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid on weekdays, broadsheet on weekends
Owner(s) Mitre Family
Publisher Bartolomé Mitre
Founded 4 January 1870; 148 years ago (1870-01-04)
Political alignment Centre-Right, Economic liberalism
Language Spanish
Headquarters Buenos Aires, Argentina
Circulation 160,000
Website www.lanacion.com.ar

La Nación (The Nation) is an Argentine daily newspaper. As the country's leading conservative paper, La Nación's main competitor is the centrist Clarín.

The paper was founded on 4 January 1870 (replacing the former publication Nación Argentina), by former Argentine President Bartolomé Mitre and associates. Until 1914, the managing editor was José Luis Murature, Foreign Minister of Argentina from 1914-1916. Enjoying Latin America's largest readership until the 1930s, its daily circulation averaged around 350,000, and exceeded only by Crítica, a Buenos Aires tabloid. The 1945 launch of Clarín created a new rival, and following the 1962 closure of Crítica, and the 1975 suspension of Crónica, La Nación secured its position as the chief market rival of Clarín.

Some of the most famous writers in the Spanish-speaking world: José Martí, Miguel de Unamuno, Eduardo Mallea, José Ortega y Gasset, Rubén Darío, Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa and Manuel Mujica Láinez have all appeared regularly in its columns.

Originally published in Bartolomé Mitre's home (today, the Museo Mitre), its offices were moved a number of times until, in 1929, a Plateresque headquarters on Florida Street was inaugurated. The publishing group today is headquartered in the Bouchard Plaza Tower, a 26-storey Post-modern office building developed between 2000 and 2004 over the news daily's existing, six-storey building.


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