Authors :
Carolina Escudero
Volume/Issue :
Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 7 - July
Google Scholar :
http://bitly.ws/9nMw
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DOI :
10.38124/IJISRT20JUL636
Abstract :
The basis for this paper is the recovered
factories movement, which began in Argentina in 2001,
and which has grown over the past decade to include
media companies, transcending digital inequalities and
turning them into opportunities for journalists and
media outlets. Just like elsewhere, the situation for
journalists in Argentina is precarious, with
technological barriers increasing digital inequalities and
a lack of respect for workers’ rights, particularly when
political processes such as changes in government lead
to new economic plans and market instability. This
situation of great uncertainty for the press has given
rise to a movement on the increase in recent years,
known as “recuperated or recovered media” or
“workers’ co-ops”. Between 2016 and 2017, at least six
media outlets were recuperated by their workers after
being closed down or abandoned by their owners,
including La Nueva Mañana, in Córdoba; El
Ciudadano of Rosario; La Portada, of Esquel; and the
Tiempo Argentino newspaper and online news site
Infonews, both based in Buenos Aires. Tiempo
Argentino is the only national newspaper supported by
its readership, contributing 70% of revenue, which has
made it one of the few independent voices of dissent in
Argentina at a time of high media concentration and
domination.
The Tiempo Argentino newspaper was one of the
winners of the first Latin American Google News
Initiative (GNI), illustrating how this movement has
transcended politico-social difficulties and transformed
digital inequalities into digital inclusion/opportunities.
The GNI is an initiative that fosters innovation aiming
to improve the sustainability of journalism in a digital
era by developing open source software, so as to
improve user experience on the Web and optimize
internal management procedures for members. Once
the software is finalized, the co-op will develop a
prototype to be made available to other self-managed
media outlets in order to strengthen their membership
model.
Hence, this exploratory study seeks to analyze the
phenomenon of the recovered media in Argentina,
focusing on the experience of Tiempo Argentino as the
newspaper and its workers face a new digital challenge.
At the end of 2001, Argentina’s political and economic
crisis was the main theme in world news coverage. At
this period and in response to the economic crisis,
workers seized control of many abandoned factories.
The rise of these “recuperated/recovered businesses”
Keywords :
Recovered Media; Media Co-Ops; Argentina; Recovered Factories; Resistance; Journalism.
The basis for this paper is the recovered
factories movement, which began in Argentina in 2001,
and which has grown over the past decade to include
media companies, transcending digital inequalities and
turning them into opportunities for journalists and
media outlets. Just like elsewhere, the situation for
journalists in Argentina is precarious, with
technological barriers increasing digital inequalities and
a lack of respect for workers’ rights, particularly when
political processes such as changes in government lead
to new economic plans and market instability. This
situation of great uncertainty for the press has given
rise to a movement on the increase in recent years,
known as “recuperated or recovered media” or
“workers’ co-ops”. Between 2016 and 2017, at least six
media outlets were recuperated by their workers after
being closed down or abandoned by their owners,
including La Nueva Mañana, in Córdoba; El
Ciudadano of Rosario; La Portada, of Esquel; and the
Tiempo Argentino newspaper and online news site
Infonews, both based in Buenos Aires. Tiempo
Argentino is the only national newspaper supported by
its readership, contributing 70% of revenue, which has
made it one of the few independent voices of dissent in
Argentina at a time of high media concentration and
domination.
The Tiempo Argentino newspaper was one of the
winners of the first Latin American Google News
Initiative (GNI), illustrating how this movement has
transcended politico-social difficulties and transformed
digital inequalities into digital inclusion/opportunities.
The GNI is an initiative that fosters innovation aiming
to improve the sustainability of journalism in a digital
era by developing open source software, so as to
improve user experience on the Web and optimize
internal management procedures for members. Once
the software is finalized, the co-op will develop a
prototype to be made available to other self-managed
media outlets in order to strengthen their membership
model.
Hence, this exploratory study seeks to analyze the
phenomenon of the recovered media in Argentina,
focusing on the experience of Tiempo Argentino as the
newspaper and its workers face a new digital challenge.
At the end of 2001, Argentina’s political and economic
crisis was the main theme in world news coverage. At
this period and in response to the economic crisis,
workers seized control of many abandoned factories.
The rise of these “recuperated/recovered businesses”
Keywords :
Recovered Media; Media Co-Ops; Argentina; Recovered Factories; Resistance; Journalism.
