La Nación

What is La Nación?

La Nación is a general-interest daily newspaper published in Buenos Aires by S.A. La Nación. The outlet dates its first edition to 4 January 1870^[1]. That date is the outlet's own claim about itself, and is reported here rather than adopted.

The paper publishes its editorial principles, ethics policy, fact-checking policy and masthead as standing documents, and its statement of mission and corporate structure identifies the publisher as S.A. La Nación^[2].

Sport runs in two places: the section at lanacion.com.ar/deportes and the dedicated Canchallena brand, which sits on a subdomain of the same site^[3]. The domain given on this page is the parent one.

What does La Nación cover?

General news with a full sports desk. Football coverage runs across the Liga Profesional, the national teams, the Copa Libertadores and the FIFA World Cup, and the paper also carries regular bylines in rugby, tennis, field hockey, motorsport and polo^[3].

Polo is a case in point: the paper's polo desk reports the Asociación Argentina de Polo's year-end handicap revisions in detail^[4].

Football remains the largest single subject by volume, and the paper's coverage of it runs alongside the Liga Nacional de Básquet and the Olympic Games cycle^[3].

The outlet's mission statement lists the wider group around the paper — the LN+ channel, LN 104.9 radio, a set of magazine titles and the Canchallena sports platform — so its sports output reaches print, web, radio and television^[2].

What are La Nación's reach and standing?

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism's Digital News Report 2026 chapter on Argentina records 386,000 digital subscribers for La Nación, against 647,000 for Clarín, and lists LN+ among the television brands measured for trust^[5].

On the web, TotalMedios reported Comscore figures putting lanacion.com.ar third among Argentine news sites in June 2026 on 10,970,267 unique users, having recovered third place that month^[6]. In January 2026 the same ranking had it third on 10,238,000, with TN having passed it into second place^[7].

Comscore's category is general news rather than sport, so these figures measure the whole site and not the sports desk alone. No separately audited figure for the Canchallena sports brand could be retrieved for this page.

The two measures point the same way but count different things: the Reuters Institute figure is a paying-subscriber count, while the Comscore figure is a monthly unique-user count for the free site. On both, La Nación sits in the top four Argentine news brands and below Infobae^[5] [6].

Since when?

The outlet dates its first edition to 4 January 1870^[1]. Founding, incorporation as S.A. La Nación and the adoption of the present corporate structure are three different dates, and only the first of them is stated in the sources retrieved for this page.

The dated material that can be established independently is recent and commercial. Grupo Clarín's chronology records that Clarín and La Nación jointly organised the first Caminos y Sabores fair in 2005, which places the two publishers in a documented joint venture^[8]. The Reuters Institute's 2026 report is the source used here for the subscription figures^[5].

The Canchallena sports brand runs on a subdomain of lanacion.com.ar rather than a domain of its own, so the ranking key for this page is the parent site^[3].

Why does La Nación matter in Argentina's sport?

Among Argentina's print dailies it is second to Clarín on both measures — 386,000 digital subscribers against 647,000, and 10,970,267 Comscore unique users in June 2026 against 10,744,505^[5] [6] — and it is not part of Grupo Clarín. For a reader or an adjudicator looking for two independent Argentine sources on the same event, La Nación and a Grupo Clarín title are separate publishers, where Clarín and Olé are not.

Its reporting on the 2026 change of ownership at TyC Sports is an example of that separation: La Nación carried the transaction on 26 May 2026, naming the buyer, the stake and the assets involved^[9].

Its breadth outside football also matters. Coverage of polo, rugby and tennis in a national daily gives those sports a dated general-press record that a specialist outlet alone would not supply^[4]. Its polo reporting in particular tracks the Asociación Argentina de Polo's own handicap instruments rather than summarising them at a remove^[4].