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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate.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

O Globo (The Globe) is a newspaper from Brazil, where it is one of the three most-read dailies.

With an online version since 1996, O Globo has rapidly expanded its presence on various digital platforms. In 2008, it became the first news organization in Latin America to make available its content on Kindle (Amazon’s e-book reader); and in 2012, it launched O Globo a Mais, an evening edition exclusively designed for its iPad app.

The transition strategy has been successful. O Globo’s website has more than 2,3 million registered subscribers and 350,000 unique visitors every day; and thanks to the evening edition for iPad, the average time readers spend consuming its content has tripled.

Funded in 1925, the newspaper is the flagship product of Infoglobo. The group edits two more papers, one of them (Extra) has the highest circulation in the South American country.

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Nov. 30, 2023 / Ken Doctor

Forget the link tax. Focus on one key metric to “save local news” — Is the link tax dead? The Canadian government, faced by heavy opposition from many news publishers, blinked Wednesday when regulators and Google agreed to an “exemption” from the controversial Online News Act, se...

Nov. 30, 2023 / Benjamin Toff

So who are the consistent news avoiders? — When we tell friends and colleagues that we research people who consume basically no news at all, one of the most common questions they ask is some version of “Who are these people?” To committed news consumers, espe...

Nov. 29, 2023 / Sarah Scire

A picture is worth a thousand words? Meet the nonprofit newsrooms hiring editorial cartoonists — The San Diego-based nonprofit newsroom inewsource has published in-depth accountability reporting since 2009. The vision? “Betrayals of the public trust are revealed and rectified, wrongdoing is deterred, and inequ...

Nov. 28, 2023 / Patrick Egwu

“African media houses must do more investigative reporting to stay relevant” — Manasseh Azure Awuni is the editor-in-chief of The Fourth Estate, a nonprofit, public-interest, investigative journalism project of the Media Foundation for West Africa. Since its launch in 2021, The Fourth Estate has ...

Nov. 28, 2023 / Colleen Murrell

The Israeli government has Haaretz newspaper in its sights as it tightens the screws on media freedom — The Israeli government is putting pressure on the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz to line up in support of the government in its conduct of the war in Gaza. The communications minister, Shlomo Karhi, has suggested financ...

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

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