Clarín

What is Clarín?

Clarín is a general-interest daily newspaper published in Buenos Aires and the title Grupo Clarín takes its name from. The group's own chronology states that the paper was born on 28 August 1945 and that its founder was Roberto Noble, described there as a journalist, lawyer and legislator^[1]. The same chronology records that Ernestina Herrera de Noble took over direction of the paper in 1969 on Noble's death^[1].

Sport is a section of the paper rather than a separate title, published at clarin.com/deportes; the domain given on this page is the parent site. The group publishes the sports daily Olé separately, on its own domain^[2].

Grupo Clarín states that it has been listed on the Buenos Aires exchange since 2007, when 20 per cent of its shares were floated in Buenos Aires and London, and describes itself as the only Argentine media group quoted there^[1].

What does Clarín cover?

Clarín is a general newspaper: politics, economy, society and culture, with a sports desk inside it. Its sports coverage follows the Liga Profesional, the national football teams, Argentine clubs in the Copa Libertadores and the Copa América, and the country's other competitive structures, including basketball, rugby, tennis and polo^[3].

The group's own description of its work distinguishes the journalism it groups under "Periodismo" from a separate "Deportes" area, which it presents as spanning multiple products and formats across disciplines^[2].

Grupo Clarín's chronology also records the paper's supplement strategy — daily supplements from 1969, a Sunday magazine from 1967, Revista Ñ from 2003 and the ARQ and Genios titles — which is the structure the sports section sits inside^[1].

The division of labour within the group is worth stating: Clarín's desk covers sport as one subject among several for a general readership, while Olé is published as a separate daily devoted to sport alone and on its own domain^[2]. A reader following an Argentine competition will find both titles reporting the same fixture, and both are produced by the same company.

What are Clarín's reach and standing?

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism's Digital News Report 2026 chapter on Argentina describes Clarín as the country's highest-circulation print newspaper and records 647,000 digital subscribers, against 386,000 for La Nación^[4].

On the web, TotalMedios reported Comscore figures putting clarin.com fourth among Argentine news sites in June 2026 on 10,744,505 unique users, behind Infobae on 13,492,618, TN on 11,212,955 and La Nación on 10,970,267^[5]. In January 2026 the same ranking had Clarín fourth on 9,927,568^[6].

The Comscore category measures general news rather than sport, so these figures cover the whole site and not the sports desk on its own; the Reuters Institute figure is a subscription count rather than an audience one, and the two are not comparable.

Grupo Clarín's own chronology states that the paper became the highest-circulation Spanish-language daily in the world in 1985 and that in 2023 it held the largest number of subscribers of any Spanish-language outlet^[1]. Those are the publisher's claims about itself; the Reuters Institute and Comscore figures above are the independently sourced ones.

Since when?

Grupo Clarín states 28 August 1945 as the date the paper was born^[1], and records a gala at the Teatro Colón in 2025 marking eighty years^[1]. The two dates are consistent with each other; both come from the publisher.

The group's dated steps around the paper run: Radio Mitre acquired and Artear founded in 1990; entry into sports production and transmission in 1991; the Todo Noticias cable channel launched in 1993; clarin.com and the sports daily Olé both launched in 1996; incorporation as a sociedad anónima with Goldman Sachs taking 18 per cent in 1999; the stock-market listing in 2007; and the first digital subscription by an Argentine mass-market outlet in 2017^[1].

The group's sports assets moved in 2026: La Nación reported on 26 May 2026 that Grupo Clarín sold its 50 per cent of the TyC Sports channel, and the production company Carburando, to the Werthein group's holding company^[7].

Why does Clarín matter in Argentina's sport?

Clarín is the largest-circulation newspaper in the country on the Reuters Institute's description^[4], which makes its sports pages the daily general-press record for Argentine competition alongside the specialist title. For a reader dating a result, a transfer or a federation decision, Grupo Clarín dates the title to 1945^[1], so its sports pages run as a general-press record across that period.

The ownership chain is the thing to hold in view. Clarín and Olé are both Grupo Clarín titles^[1] [2], and until 26 May 2026 the group also held half of TyC Sports^[7]. A reference that cites Clarín, Olé and TyC Sports for a claim dated before that sale is citing three outlets with one set of owners.

Its non-football sport also has weight: the paper's sports front carries the Liga Nacional de Básquet, rugby and field hockey alongside football^[3].

See broadcast rights and transfer systems for the recurring subjects of that coverage.