El Diario de Hoy

What is El Diario de Hoy?

El Diario de Hoy is a daily newspaper in San Salvador. Its site, eldiariodehoy.com, is titled “El Diario de Hoy - Noticias El Salvador”, and its main menu on 26 September 2026 ran from Noticias and Opinión through Negocios and Deportes to Arte y Cultura, Gente y Empresa and Fotogalerías.^[1] Its footer gives the address “11 Calle Oriente y Avenida Cuscatancingo No 271 San Salvador, El Salvador”.^[2]

Reporters Without Borders, in its 2026 entry for El Salvador, names it first among the country's traditional outlets: “There is a combination of traditional outlets, mostly print (El Diario de Hoy, La Prensa Gráfica, El Mundo)”.^[4]

The site's subscription link, labelled “Suscripción”, points to suscripciones.elsalvador.com.^[1] No company filing or ownership register was retrieved, and the site's pages that were read name no publishing company, so no owner is stated here.

What does El Diario de Hoy cover?

Its Deportes section is a top-level section of the site. On 26 September 2026 the section's latest items, published between 10:44 and 13:44 that day, were all on the national football team after its opening match in the Concacaf Nations League: the Martinique coach's comments, a forward's seventh goal for the team, two injured players before the next match against Guatemala, and the coach's assessment.^[1]

The night before, it ran a minute-by-minute report of the match, published at 8:52 p.m. on 25 September 2026 under the headline “Minuto a minuto: Selecta sorprende con cambios en la defensa ante Martinica”.^[3] Its match report, published at 10:55 p.m. the same night under the same byline and the headline “Debut soñado de la Selecta en Liga de Naciones: líder tras ganar a Martinica”, reported the result in the words “la Selecta venció por 3-1 a Martinica y se coloca líder del grupo B de la Liga de Naciones A de la Concacaf.”^[2]

Two days before the match, on 23 September 2026 at 7:00 a.m., it published an item under the headline “Arma tu 11 ideal de la Selecta para enfrentar a Martinica”, whose deck asks readers how they would line up their own starting eleven from the squad called up. The article discussed the coach's use of three central defenders.^[7] The sequence retrieved therefore runs from a pre-match item on 23 September through a live report and a match report on 25 September to follow-up items on 26 September.^[7][3][2][1]

The section's menu shows no sub-sections by sport; items are grouped under the single Deportes heading.^[2] Items read on 26 September 2026 were about football. No item on another sport was among those retrieved, which is a limit of the sample and not a statement about the section.

How large is El Diario de Hoy's audience?

No audited circulation, readership or web-traffic figure for El Diario de Hoy was retrieved, and no press audience-measurement body for El Salvador was found. That is a limit of the evidence.

The one national audience study retrieved, a 2022 article in the Universidad de El Salvador's journal Minerva, deals with television only, drawing on rating data from the private firm Rivera y Rivera Research, and gives no figure for any newspaper.^[5]

The only external measure of standing retrieved is Reporters Without Borders' listing of El Diario de Hoy among the traditional print outlets in its 2026 entry.^[4]

Since when has El Diario de Hoy existed?

The footer of the paper's own site states: “Fundado en 1936 por Napoleón Viera Altamirano y Mercedes Madriz de Altamirano.”^[1] That is the paper's own account, and no independent source for the founding date was retrieved. The same footer carries the line “2026 – Todos los derechos reservados”.^[2]

The site's link for subscriptions leads to a subdomain of elsalvador.com.^[1] The pages of elsalvador.com that were read carry the line “Todos los derechos reservados 1999-2026” but do not name El Diario de Hoy, so the relation between the two sites is not stated here.^[6]

Why does El Diario de Hoy matter in El Salvador's sport?

It is one of three newspapers that Reporters Without Borders names as El Salvador's traditional, mostly print, outlets in its 2026 entry, in which it ranks El Salvador 143rd of 180 countries with a score of 38.88.^[4]

On 26 September 2026 it was publishing through the day on the national team, with a pre-match reader item on 23 September, a live report and a match report of the Concacaf Nations League match of 25 September 2026, and four further items the next morning. Its sports coverage on those dates was carried under named bylines.^[7][1][2][3]