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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate.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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April 24, 2024 / Renee DiResta, Abhiram Reddy, and Josh A. Goldstein

From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam — If you’ve spent time on Facebook over the past six months, you may have noticed photorealistic images that are too good to be true: Children holding paintings that look like the work of professional artists, or majesti...

April 23, 2024 / Neel Dhanesha

What journalists and independent creators can learn from each other — AUSTIN — The International Symposium on Online Journalism is, by definition, a celebration of the craft of journalism. But this year there was also an overall examination of the role of the journalist writ large: As t...

April 23, 2024 / Siwei Lyu

Deepfake detection improves when using algorithms that are more aware of demographic diversity — Deepfakes — essentially putting words in someone else’s mouth in a very believable way — are becoming more sophisticated by the day and increasingly hard to spot. Recent examples of deepfakes include Taylor Swi...

April 22, 2024 / Sophie Culpepper

What it takes to run a metro newspaper in the digital era, according to four top editors — AUSTIN — In the expansive, fraught, and lively debates raging today about what the future of local news can and should look like, a vision of news as a nonprofit public good is increasingly popular among pioneering jo...

April 22, 2024 / Andrew Deck

A new Mozilla report exposes major flaws in social media ad libraries — A new report has found gaps in the ad libraries of the world’s largest social media platforms, hindering basic transparency efforts ahead of a historic global election year. The audit, published by the nonprofit Mozill...

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