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"Nicaragua: News". USA: University of Texas at Austin. "Nicaragua". Provisional Census of Current Latin American Newspaper Holdings in UK Libraries. UK: Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources. 14 April 2011.
The mass media in Nicaragua consist of several different types of communications media: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and Internet-based Web sites. [ 1 ] Freedom of speech is a right guaranteed by the Constitution of Nicaragua .
The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
The Communications Research Centre of Nicaragua (CINCO) reported that control over television media by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and President Ortega strengthened throughout 2012. National television was increasingly either controlled by FSLN supporters or directly owned and administered by President Ortega's family members.
Daniel Ortega's term as president of Nicaragua resulted in the creation of an oppressive and censored environment that caused a decline in freedom of speech.In situations where reporters are trying to do their jobs by covering anti-government protests, the president has tried to silence them through physical violence, arbitrary arrest, confiscation, and destruction of equipment.
The Nicaragua Dispatch is an independent online English-language news website based in Granada, Nicaragua.. Launched on October 17, 2011, by U.S. journalist Tim Rogers, the online newspaper identifies itself as a "community publication for the digitalized, global era" by including reader-submitted blogs and opinion pieces. [1]
Canal 12 is a nationwide terrestrial television channel in Nicaragua owned by Nicavisión, S.A., a company of the Valle Peters family. It broadcasts from a main transmitter atop Las Nubes, a major broadcast television site for the Managua area, and from repeaters at Estelí, Matagalpa and Jinotega.
Men tend to own more land than women in Nicaragua. [8] In the rural areas of Nicaragua, 65 percent of women are working on land that they do not own. [8] Due to the fact that more men owned land in Nicaragua, and ownership in Nicaragua is linked to authority, programs in the 1990s sought to provide more women with the opportunity to own land. [9]