La Tribuna

What is La Tribuna?

La Tribuna is a daily newspaper published in Tegucigalpa. Its own page states: “LA TRIBUNA es un tabloide diario, independiente y pluralista, que fue fundado en la ciudad de Tegucigalpa, capital de Honduras, el 9 de diciembre de 1976.”^[2] The same page states: “Esta edición es un servicio digital de Diario La Tribuna, que se publica en Tegucigalpa, Honduras.”^[2]

The page does not name a publishing company or shareholders, and no register of media ownership in Honduras was retrieved, so no ownership statement is made here.^[2]

Its sports coverage is on a path of the parent site, latribuna.hn/seccion/deportes, not on a separate domain.^[1]

What does La Tribuna cover?

As retrieved on 26 September 2026, the sports path carried six items dated that day, led by “Correctivos y autocritica en último ensayo” and “Edrick Menjívar: 'La derrota es inaceptable'”. They concerned the Honduran national team's last training session before its match against Jamaica, comments after its Concacaf Nations League defeat to Suriname, an injury to a Real Madrid forward, the case of Manchester City, and Argentina's national coach.^[1] They are football items.

On its home page, as retrieved on 26 September 2026, Deportes is an item of the main menu, alongside Inicio, Nacionales, Sucesos, Políticas, Económicas, Internacionales and Videos, and the expandable menu links a “Versión Impresa La Tribuna” for its print edition. The home page carries a heading “MÁS Deportes” over sports items.^[6]

The domestic league is the Liga Hondubet, whose twelve clubs in the Apertura 2026-2027 include the Tegucigalpa clubs Olimpia, Motagua and Lobos UPNFM.^[4]

How large is La Tribuna's audience?

No television-audience currency, audited readership survey or web audit covering Honduran outlets was found, and the broadcasting market study posted by the competition authority, the Comisión para la Defensa y Promoción de la Competencia (CDPC), could not be retrieved. No audited figure for La Tribuna was found.

La Tribuna's own page gives no circulation figure. It states that “LA TRIBUNA cuenta con un ágil sistema de circulación que le permite llegar a los más apartados rincones del país, en las primeras horas del día”, and describes itself as “el periódico de mayor influencia en la opinión pública hondureña”. Both are the outlet's own claims, with no measure attached.^[2]

Its anniversary article of 9 December 2025 refers to “la preferencia de anunciantes y millones de seguidores”, again without a figure, a platform or a measuring body.^[3] No web-traffic figure for latribuna.hn from an audited source was found, and none is given.

Since when has La Tribuna existed?

La Tribuna's own page gives 9 December 1976 as its founding date in Tegucigalpa, and names “su Director-Fundador, el abogado, escritor y periodista Oscar Armando Flores Midence”.^[2]

The paper marked its 49th anniversary in an article of 9 December 2025, which gives the same founding date and describes the first edition's cartoon character, the “Tribunito”, with the message: “El mejor regalo de Navidad para el pueblo hondureño es LA TRIBUNA”. It records that the founder's first editorial was titled “Todo comienzo es difícil”, and that the first edition was printed on an old Harris press, with a second Harris rotary press acquired in 1992 and a Heidelberg rotary press in 2001.^[3]

For its website the same article gives the entry: “1997: Lanzó su versión digital el 10 de febrero, pionera en el ciberespacio nacional.”^[3] The claim to have been a pioneer is the paper's own and was not checked against an independent source. All of these dates are the paper's own account.

Why does La Tribuna matter in Honduras's sport?

Reporters Without Borders, in its 2026 World Press Freedom Index, places Honduras 132nd of 180 and writes: “The country's leading papers are La Prensa, El Heraldo and La Tribuna.” The same entry opens: “Media pluralism has been undermined by multinational corporations taking over major outlets and political and business leaders acquiring local newsrooms.” It continues: “At the local level, community radio stations and media outlets continue to operate despite being highly vulnerable due to their precarious financial situation and the presence of armed groups.”^[5] Between those two sentences it writes that digital investigative journalism “has become more established, but these reporters are exposed to pressure from local authorities and online harassment.”^[5] Those are the monitor's statements, and it names no owner of La Tribuna.

La Tribuna is a general daily with sport as one section, and it was publishing national-team coverage on 26 September 2026.^[1]