Mass media in Colombia
It was founded in 1911 by Alfonso Villegas Restrepo and currently owned by Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo.
El Espacio, founded in 1965 by Ciro Gómez Mejía, was the main yellow journalism newspaper in the country until 2013 when it was sold to Roberto Esper Espaje after it could not cope with the competence of fledgling tabloids Q'Hubo and Extra.
Free newspapers include Publimetro (Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, and Barranquilla) and ADN, published by El Tiempo in the same cities mentioned plus Bucaramanga.
El País newspaper is the main source of written information in the south-western region of the country, specially in the Valle del Cauca department.
As September 2009, the web connections surpasses two million,[2] as compared with an estimated total of 900,000 Internet subscribers by the end of 2005.
[1] Media ownership remains concentrated in the hands of wealthy families, large national conglomerates, or groups associated with one or the other of the two dominant political parties.
Colombian journalists practice self-censorship to avoid reprisals by corrupt officials, criminals, and members of illegal armed groups.
Major international wire services, newspapers, and television networks have a presence in the country and generally operate free of government interference.
