You may not know about Revista, the magazine about Latin America produced by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies here at Harvard. It covers a range of issues relating to the region, from architecture to violence to dance.

But if you’re at all interested in contemporary Latin American journalism, you should check out the Spring/Summer 2011 issue, which is all about the subject. Check out the full table of contents, but here are a few pieces — all written by past Nieman Fellows — that stood out to me:

— Raul Penaranda on why he started a newspaper with an iPad-driven business idea

— Monica Almeida on press censorship in Ecuador

— Alfredo Corchado on the personal risks taken by reporters in Mexico

— Graciela Mochofsky with an overview of recent innovation in Latin American journalism

— Juanita León on online journalism in Colombia

What’s remarkable about this group (if I may brag about our Nieman Fellows for a bit) is that so many of them are proving to be among the region’s most important journalism innovators, starting their own news outlets in what has sometimes been criticized as a conservative media culture: Penaranda with Página Siete, Mochofsky with el puercoespín, and León with La Silla Vacía. Give the issue a read.