Honduras has many professional newspapers. Five are daily news, three of which, El Periodico, La Tribuna, and El Heraldo, are headquartered in Tegucigalpa. The two other daily papers, El Tiempo and La Prensa, are based in San Pedro Sula. Daily newspapers reach about 159,000 Hondurans.
Private interests own around 80 percent of newspapers. Political figures are a prominent part of the Honduran press. Former President Rafael Leonardo Callejas is the principal stockholder in El Periodico, and the paper is known for its conservative views. Another influential political figure, Jaime Rosenthal, owns El Tiempo. Rosenthal, a Liberal Party leader who finished second in the Liberal Party of Honduras primary for the 1993 national election, leads the more liberal paper, which is known to criticize the police and military. As a result, the editor, Manuel Gamero, has at times been jailed.
La Tribuna and La Prensa are considered by most readers to be more centrist than the other newspapers, although some would say La Prensa is a little more to the right of center. La Tribuna is owned by yet another political figure, Carlos Flores Facusse, who in 1989 made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency before being elected to that post in the November 1997 election. La Tribuna has close ties to the Liberal Party and to Tegucigalpa's industrial sector, while the newspaper La Prensa has ties to San Pedro Sula businesses. Publisher and editor, Jorge Canahuati Larach, is a member of the family that also publishes El Heraldo, and Diez. That paper is more conservative than La Prensa, and has been more favorable in its coverage of the military than other daily newspapers. El Heraldo often reflects the positions of the National Party.
Newspapers of "the resistance" have sprung up over the past few years. Examples are Vos el Soberano, El Patriota, and El Libertador. Additionally, a few news sources are published online, such as Hondudiario, Proceso Digital, and Honduras News.
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