Observador

Observador
FormatOnline Newspaper
Owner(s)Observador On Time, S.A.
Founder(s)António Carrapatoso, José Manuel Fernandes, Rui Ramos
PublisherJosé Manuel Fernandes
EditorMiguel Pinheiro
Political alignmentRight-Wing
LanguagePortuguese
HeadquartersLisbon, Portugal
Circulation6,999,215 (Unique Visitors, November 2021)
Websitewww.observador.pt

Observador is a Portuguese online newspaper started on May 19, 2014. It is the only Portuguese-language newspaper in Portugal with a defined political orientation (right-wing liberalism).

It is an online newspaper with no printed edition, with the exception of the Anniversary and Lifestyle editions. Observador commits itself to publish and update information on a 24/7 basis.

In the first month, it reported 630,000 visitors. By August 2015, it reported six million visitors and 35 million pageviews. In January 2020, it reported 6.79 million visitors and 51.34 million pageviews.

In its first year, the newspaper won the "Launch of the Year" award in the Meios & Publicidade Awards. It also elected as newspaper of the year in 2018 by the same organization and it won the 2019 Edition of the Marktest award in "Press and Digital - Media".