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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate.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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March 27, 2025 / Sophie Culpepper

How can we reach beyond the local news choir? Spotlight PA’s founding editor has ideas — As LinkedIn post ledes go, Spotlight PA CEO and editor Christopher Baxter’s on a post last week was intriguing: “I recently had lunch with a staunch, pro-Trump Republican and highly successful business leader, and hi...

March 27, 2025 / Joshua Benton

Robert W. McChesney, America’s leading left-wing critic of corporate media, has died — Robert W. McChesney, the lion of anti-corporate media scholarship, is dead at the age of 72. He was, for decades, probably the most prominent academic critic of American media from the left, focused on all the ways our i...

March 26, 2025 / Sarah Scire

“Some hard and important lessons”: One of the most promising local news nonprofits looks back — and ahead — It’s hard not to root for the National Trust for Local News. Heralded as a savior of local newspapers, the nonprofit has presented itself as the ideal foil to the hedge fund-owned chains that slash local newsroom jobs ...

March 25, 2025 / Joshua Benton

Jeffrey Goldberg got the push notification of all push notifications — and a hell of a story — Journalism’s biggest scoops usually require months — years! — of shoe-leather reporting. Developing sources. Building trust. Coaxing out documents. Analyzing data. Assembling tiny fragments of information — p...

March 20, 2025 / Joshua Benton

There’s another reason the L.A. Times’ AI-generated opinion ratings are bad (this one doesn’t involve the Klan) — In 1964, Philip Converse published what would become one of the most cited papers in all of political science, “The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics.”1 It was a result of a movement at the University ...

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