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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate.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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Dec. 7, 2023 / Brian Stelter

Media owners in the crosshairs as Trump craves retribution — Think ahead to the fall of 2024. The Republican party nominee for president pledges that his administration will open investigations into media companies that make statements his voters don’t like to hear. This nom...

Dec. 7, 2023 / Dannagal G. Young

TV rewards the authoritarian candidate — The stakes have never been higher for American democracy. The most likely winner of the Republican primary in 2024 called for the disruption of the certification of the electoral vote in 2020, insists without evidence th...

Dec. 7, 2023 / Robin Kwong

Newsrooms (re)discover the magic of project management — If you want to see a journalist recoil and slowly back away from you, start talking about Gantt charts, RACI responsibility matrices and project post-mortem meetings. But they can’t run forever. As newsrooms face incre...

Dec. 7, 2023 / Rubina Madan Fillion

Humans hold their own against the robots — I spent a decent amount of time conversing with chatbots this year, trying to gauge how effective they are at writing and editing. Their headlines were boring. Their social posts sounded like they were written by overcaf...

Dec. 7, 2023 / Joshua P. Darr

Local news will adapt to low demand — In 2023, many public discussions about the future of American democracy centered on increasing the supply of local news. The situation is certainly dire: By the end of 2024, Northwestern’s Local News Initiative predict...

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