Washington, D.C., is a prominent center for national and international media.
The Washington Post, founded in 1877, is the city's most-read local daily newspaper and one of the preeminent newspapers in the United States. It had the sixth-highest readership of all news dailies in the country in 2011. The
Post previously also published the
Spanish-language newspaper
El Tiempo Latino, which it sold to
El Planeta Media in 2016. The city is served by two local NPR affiliates,
WAMU and
WETA.
