Canal N is a Peruvian pay-television news channel founded on July 4, 1999, and headquartered in Lima, as part of the El Comercio media group. It was Peru’s first 24-hour cable news channel, with programming focused on current affairs and political coverage. The channel was created under journalist Gilberto Hume and was instrumental in the fall of President Alberto Fujimori, who ruled from 1990 to 2000 and was later convicted of human rights abuses and corruption. In 2021, the channel drew criticism after journalists were forced out for refusing to produce coverage favorable to Keiko Fujimori’s presidential campaign.