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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate.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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June 8, 2023 / Joshua Benton

After exposure by a nonprofit news outlet, New York is rescinding its policy banning most journalism by prisoners — Want to feel good about the power of journalism? Take a look at New York Focus, a nonprofit newsroom that looks at state policy. On Tuesday, reporter Chris Gelardi revealed a new policy that would have functionally banne...

June 8, 2023 / Sophie Culpepper

The Star Tribune is offering high school grads across Minnesota free one-year digital subscriptions — It’s the season for graduation presents, and this year, the Star Tribune is offering an unusual gift to Minnesota’s entire graduating high school Class of 2023: a free, one-year digital subscription. The new initiati...

June 6, 2023 / Laura Hazard Owen

“The news feeds do not sag”: A look at Ukraine’s local news landscape, more than a year into the war — “Adaptation to the war has occurred, albeit incompletely.” That’s one top finding from a recent report by the Media Development Foundation, an organization founded in 2013 to strengthen independent jour...

June 6, 2023 / Amel Ghani

Uncovering Karachi: How journalists use maps and data to investigate problems in a modern metropolis — Karachi is Pakistan’s largest city and financial capital, but it is also a place with the dubious reputation of being one of the most unlivable cities in the world. The problems are not hard to spot: The residents of t...

June 5, 2023 / Gene Allen

How a titan of 20th-century journalism transformed the AP — and the news — On the day of Kent Cooper’s funeral in February 1965, the flow of news through the international Associated Press network — the institution he spent a 40-year career building — came to a complete stop. In score...

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