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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

Plaza Pública is digital newspaper based in Guatemala.

The site was founded in February 2011, after Universidad Rafael Landívar asked a group of journalists to create an online news organization that would contribute to the construction of a “solid and vigorous democracy, with ethics and social justice.”

According to its website, Plaza Pública focuses on analysis, investigative reporting and debate. Its main topics are human rights, politics and economy.

Two thirds of its funding come from the university and the rest from non-governmental organizations like Open Society Foundations, Hivos, and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

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Nov. 20, 2024 / Andrew Deck

What will a second Trump term mean for the Freedom of Information Act? — During the first Trump administration, one law arguably played an outsized role in fueling accountability reporting on the federal government. The Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, has long been a cornerstone of inves...

Nov. 19, 2024 / Sophie Culpepper

The Green Line creates local news for the people turning away from “big-J journalism” — Toronto-based local news site The Green Line doesn’t just want to inform its audience; it aspires to improve their lives. The Green Line describes its mission as investigating “the way Torontonians live to report on ...

Nov. 19, 2024 / Hanaa' Tameez

Spanish-language newspapers in the U.S. struggle to localize climate change stories, according to a new study — The majority of Latinos in the United States (81%) have said that climate change is one of their top concerns and the issue disproportionately affects their communities. But local Spanish-language newspapers in the Unite...

Nov. 18, 2024 / Joshua Benton

Trump’s new FCC nominee promises to bring Project 2025-style governance to media — In September, I went through all the proposals from Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation’s policy blueprint for a second Trump term — that would have a direct impact on the media. At the time, of course, cand...

Nov. 18, 2024 / Sarah Scire

Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization — There’s always Monday morning quarterbacking after an election and, in the past two weeks, an incredible number of takes have invoked a podcaster by the name of Joe Rogan. A new Pew Research Center report focuses o...

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Primary author: Antonio Jiménez. Main text last updated: June 12, 2014.

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