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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate.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 15, 2024 / Joshua Benton

PressPad, an attempt to bring some class diversity to posh British journalism, is shutting down — While it’s not true that all good things must come to an end — personally, I’m a fan of gravity — it’s true in digital media more often than you’d like. And it seems to be true with an interes...

April 15, 2024 / Richard Tofel

Is the Texas Tribune an example or an exception? A conversation with Evan Smith about earned income — Evan Smith, founding CEO of the Texas Tribune from 2009 to 2022, is a nonprofit pioneer, a brilliant editor and publisher, and a friend and fellow Yankees fan. These days, he is a senior adviser at Laurene Powell Jobs’...

April 10, 2024 / Jeff Jarvis

The California Journalism Preservation Act would do more harm than good. Here’s how the state might better help news — The California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA) — like its federal cousin, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) — is the latest in a century’s attempts by the newspaper industry to diminish ...

April 10, 2024 / Samuel Jens

“Fake news” legislation risks doing more harm than good amid a record number of elections in 2024 — “Fake news” legislation that governments around the world have written in recent years to combat mis- and disinformation does little to protect journalistic freedom. Rather, it can create a greater risk of ha...

April 8, 2024 / Sophie Culpepper

Dateline Totality: How local news outlets in the eclipse’s path are covering the covering — Incarcerated New Yorkers facing a lockdown (and suing successfully against it). Couples from Vermont to Texas tying the knot. Heliophysics research at Southern Illinois University. That’s just a sample of the creative,...

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