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For Colombia and Latin America, online journalism has the potential to become a powerful alternative to the news coming from corporate conglomerates and family owned media, as well as a platform to build democracy and the free press. Some organizations dedicated to protecting and monitoring free expression in Latin America see possibilities for investigative, independent journalism and civic movements in the online boom (Farah, 2011).
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Montaña, S. (2014). Case 2: Colombia—An Ethnographic Study of Digital Journalistic Practices. In: Kalyango, Y., Mould, D.H. (eds) Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440563_12
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