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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate.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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Oct. 10, 2024 / Joshua Benton

With Hurricane Milton looming, NPR stations got a lower-bandwidth way to reach residents — If a webpage ever seems slow, there’s one thing that’s unlikely to be the culprit: its text. Unlike images, videos, or interactive elements, words get encoded into tiny, hyper-efficient packages. War and Peac...

Oct. 10, 2024 / Jon Grinspan

How a 19th-century news revolution sparked activists, influencers, disinformation, and the Civil War — There’s one question I get every time I give a talk. I’m a curator of political history at the Smithsonian Institution, and when I discuss the deep history of political division in our country, someone in the...

Oct. 9, 2024 / Sarah Scire

The typical American TikTok user doesn’t follow a single journalist or traditional media outlet — Pop culture, viral dances, and comedy are big on TikTok. News and politics? Not so much. A new report from the Pew Research Center finds that Americans on TikTok follow very few politicians, journalists, or traditional m...

Oct. 9, 2024 / Zhen Yang

How The New York Times incorporates editorial judgment in algorithms to curate its home page — Whether on the web or the app, the home page of The New York Times is a crucial gateway, setting the stage for readers’ experiences and guiding them to the most important news of the day. The Times publishes over 250 s...

Oct. 8, 2024 / Andrew Deck

Want to change money in Cuba? It’ll probably involve an exiled news outlet — and AI — In Havana, a phrase is widely printed on restaurant menus and displayed by shop owners: “exchange rate of the day.” This daily rate is used to calculate prices for U.S. dollars or euros, which are frequently used ins...

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

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