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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate.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, 2023 / Hanaa' Tameez

Nieman Lab now has a WhatsApp Channel — Starting today, you can get updates from Nieman Lab through our new WhatsApp Channel. For years, news publishers have been using WhatsApp in all sorts of interesting ways to share news, build communities, and debunk misi...

Nov. 20, 2023 / Joshua Benton

What does OpenAI’s rapid unscheduled disassembly mean for the future of AI? — Forgive media companies if they felt a little schadenfreude this weekend. For the past two decades, they’ve been criticized (often rightly, sometimes wrongly) for making terrible management decisions in the face of...

Nov. 20, 2023 / Hanaa' Tameez

“Everybody’s sense of emotion and devastation is heightened”: How Jewish Currents is covering the Israel-Hamas war — Earlier this month, Mari Cohen reported on how the 92nd Street Y, a New York City cultural center, canceled a scheduled event after the slated speaker signed an open letter calling for an end to the violence in Gaza. “...

Nov. 16, 2023 / Sophie Culpepper

In 2023, bright spots in local news stand out against a grim landscape — When the Medill Local News Initiative released its rigorous State of Local News 2022 report last June, the team behind it found that the country was losing two newspapers per week (mostly weeklies), and had lost 2,500 ne...

Nov. 16, 2023 / Sarah Scire

The Washington Post takes the “unusual step” of publishing graphic photos from mass shootings — Could newsrooms publishing photos from mass shootings help stop them? The question has been asked before, but the deaths of 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas seemed to spur a louder-than...

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