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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate.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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Jan. 23, 2025 / Kate Wright

What will happen to Voice of America in Trump’s second term? — With President Donald Trump installed for a second term, one big item on the new administration’s agenda appears to be rearranging the media landscape, undermining its journalistic critics and giving a boost to the me...

Jan. 22, 2025 / Sophie Culpepper

The Tulsa Local News Initiative combines old and new to shore up the city’s information ecosystem — When Gary Lee was 12 years old, he read about a scholarship program that would change his life. A Better Chance enabled him to attend the prestigious Phillips Academy, and helped propel him to a career in journalism for ...

Jan. 21, 2025 / Joshua Benton

Want a little less Donald Trump in your brain? Vox has a new newsletter that dials down the franticness — How much of your headspace should Donald Trump be taking up? Let’s assume, for a moment, that you’re not a fan of his. You didn’t like his first term, and you’re worried about many of the things h...

Jan. 21, 2025 / Neel Dhanesha

What the creators of Howtown learned in their first few months on YouTube — When science journalists Adam Cole and Joss Fong decided to go independent, YouTube was the obvious place to start. They’re both natives of the platform: Fong cofounded the Vox YouTube channel, and Cole spent years pro...

Jan. 16, 2025 / Sarah Scire

Audience editors offer advice for “dispiriting” times in social and search — It is not the best — or most certain — of times in social and search. Newsrooms have seen steep declines in traffic from Facebook and Twitter as platforms build higher walls to keep users in-app by deprioritizing new...

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

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