IPI’s Local News & Innovation Network hosted a virtual newsroom visit to Alharaca, the independent El Salvador-based publication that focuses on feminism, equality, and social justice. Alharaca was founded in 2018 and takes its name from a term often used in a pejorative way to dismiss women as being over-emotional. The team are reclaiming this term, taking an experimental approach to news formats and storytelling and creating a space for the voices of marginalized people.
Alharaca’s team provided valuable insights into their operations within a media landscape where independent journalists face increasing pressure. Watch the event recording and discover the steps they are taking to attain financial sustainability, and how they have developed a collaborative model that achieves meaningful impact.
Topics covered in the visit:
- The launch of Alharaca, its mission, primary objectives, and innovative business model;
- Main thematic areas and organizational structure;
- Examples of impactful work, including research and investigations conducted by the newsroom;
- Alharaca’s brand identity and its approach to multimedia reporting.
At the newsroom visited we heard from:
- Laura Aguirre, CEO and Co-founder
- Jimena Aguilar, Editor and Creative Director
- Lya Cuéllar, Web editor and journalist
- Andrea Burgos, Data viewer
- Kellys Portillo, Photojournalist
- Mónica Campos, Audiovisual journalist
This is the third and last of IPI’s latest round of newsroom visits, which offer media innovators a chance to get an inside look at how their peers around the world are managed, and to forge lasting relationships across countries, regions and continents. Newsroom visits are organized as part of IPI’s Local News & Innovation Network, which also hosts a Slack community for peer-to-peer discussion – find out more here.
IPI’s virtual newsroom visits are made possible by support from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF).
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