Newspapers
Ecuador produces several high-quality daily newspapers. Leader of the pack is the Quito-based El Comercio , a traditional broadsheet that has good coverage of home and international news, and comes with supplement sections on sport and business. The more progressive Hoy , again from Quito, also enjoys a high standard of writing, particularly in its robust editorials. The Guayaquil broadsheets, El Universo and El Telegrafo , are solid publications, the latter printing a news summary in English. There are a number of regional newspapers too, such as El Mercurio in Cuenca and Metropolitano in Manta. Just about all of these major dailies have their own Web sites, which hold a selection of the day's articles and headlines . The gravity of the broadsheets is counterbalanced by a racy tabloid press, such as La Segunda and La Tercera in Quito, which try to find the lighter side of the most grisly news stories, and have been known to run headlines like " Murio hecho farol " ("Died becoming a lamppost") when someone was electrocuted. Ultimas Noticias , Quito's afternoon tabloid, somewhat equivalent to the UK's London Evening Standard , isn't as flippant, but Guayaquil's Extra , available across the country, manages to plumb the depths of tabloid journalism. An unsavoury mix of sex and violence, the front-page picture is invariably a bloody murder scene or traffic accident, usually alongside a photo of a bikini-clad woman. A handful of English-language quarterly magazines are published in Quito, such as the worthy, but thin, Ecuador Times , and several pocket-sized city guides that have tourist information and the odd article in English and Spanish, such as Descubra Quito, Inside Ecuador , or the weekly Explorer , the best for the latest entertainment and events listings. Imported news magazines - Newsweek, Time and The Economist - are usually only found in the tourist centres, where you're also likely to get copies of the International Herald Tribune , and the overseas edition of the Miami Herald newspapers.
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