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La Prensa Grafica, sometimes called simply La Prensa, is a daily newspaper published in El Salvador by David Escobar Galindo. One of the largest metropolitan newspapers in El Salvador, it is owned by Grupo Dutriz.

On May 10, 1915, the first edition was published under the name La Prensa and the only editors were the Hermanos Dutriz (Dutriz brothers). This edition had four standard-size pages. It talked about "Una de las manifestaciones más espléndidas del progreso cultural de los pueblos la constituye el grado de perfección, llamado con justicia el cuarto poder del Estado, o sea la prensa, que encarna el alma compleja y batalladora de las colectividades civilizadas y conscientes" (One of the greatest manifestations of the cultural progress of the towns...) This edition also says that they will work daily to try to have peace and bring information to every Salvadoran.

The first publisher of La Prensa was Jose Dutriz, who served in that post from 1915 to 1934, when he passed the office to his sons Jose and Roberto Dutriz.

Then on August 10, 1939, La Prensa merged with another newspaper that had been created a few months earlier, El Grafico, and became known as La Prensa Grafica. La Prensa Grafica became one of the first newspapers in Central America to use color in its printing.

La Prensa Grafica costs US$0.50 and is one of the two largest newspapers in El Salvador, the other one being El Diario De Hoy. The newspaper currently uses the Goodnews publishing system.