La Patilla
Type of site | Online newspaper |
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Available in | Spanish |
Owner | Alberto Federico Ravell |
Editor | David Moran |
URL | lapatilla |
Registration | None |
Users | +4.5 million (monthly, September 2015)[1] |
Launched | June 11, 2010 |
Current status | Active |
La Patilla (
History
La Patilla was created by co-founder and former CEO of Globovisión, Alberto Federico Ravell. In 2010, Ravell resigned from Globovisión's board of directors.[10] He created La Patilla the same year.[11] BBC Monitoring described La Patilla in 2019 as leading among news sources that are "often run by media critics of the government who had been forced to leave their previous journalist jobs because of government pressure and harassment".[11]
Growth
In 2014, the
In 2019, Alexa ranked La Patilla as the 16th most popular website in Venezuela.[2]
Demographics
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Initially after La Patilla's launch, its readership was primarily from postgraduate educated individuals. In 2015, La Patilla was primarily visited by those who were both college educated and not collegiately educated. One of the primary browsing locations for users was at school and at work.[12][non-primary source needed] By 2018, according to Alexa, visitors were primarily college educated or in graduate school, with homes and work places becoming the main browsing locations while visits from schools declined.[13]
Reception
In 2013, Freedom House described La Patilla as having a pro-opposition stance.[14] The Wall Street Journal described the website as a news aggregator.[3]
Attacks
Censorship
On 17 May 2012, La Patilla was covering violent clashes occurring at a Venezuelan prison,
Weeks after the
On reporters
On 22 April 2014, reporters from La Patilla, who were covering events in Santa Fe, were retained by the National Guard. The reporters were accused of being "fake journalists", had to show their ID's to the National Guardsmen and had their pictures taken. They were later released without further complications.
Diosdado Cabello
On 11 August 2015, then President of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, sued La Patilla and other media organizations for reporting that he was being investigated for his ties to drug trafficking and his alleged role in the Cartel of the Suns. On 31 May 2017, Bolivarian official Pedro Carreño leaked a document prior to trial of a decision by Venezuelan courts to award Cabello 1 billion bolívares ($500,000 USD in May 2017). Cabello stated that with the money, "I am going to pay the lawyers and I will give that to the poor children". The lawyer for La Patilla, Alejandra Rodríguez, stated that "to publish the contents of a judicial act in the middle of a controversy, of which Pedro Carreño is not a party, invalidates the judicial proceedings ... If that decision is true, it would demonstrate once again that in Venezuela there is no separation of powers and that the Judiciary is an appendage of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela".[26]
In June 2019, La Patilla was charged and fined 30 billion sovereign bolivars (about $5 million) after publishing an
See also
References
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- ^ a b "Top Sites in Venezuela". Alexa Internet. Archived from the original on 2019-02-02. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
- ^ a b c d e Minaya, Ezequiel (7 September 2014). "Venezuela's Press Crackdown Stokes Growth of Online Media". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
- ^ a b Maria Delgado, Antonio (30 April 2014). "Nicolás Maduro busca poner cerrojo a la internet en Venezuela". El Nuevo Herald. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ a b "Cantv continúa el bloqueo a La Patilla". La Patilla (in European Spanish). 2018-08-24. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
- ^ Gilbert, David (2018-06-26). "Venezuela just took a huge step towards controlling all access to the Internet". Vice News. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
- ^ "Wikipedia blocked in Venezuela as internet controls tighten". NetBlocks. 2019-01-12. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ "Wikimedia Venezuela insta al Gobierno a reestablecer el libre acceso al portal". Efecto Cocuyo. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
- ^ "Denuncian bloqueo de Wikipedia en Venezuela". Voice of America (in Spanish). 16 January 2019. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
- ^ "Alberto Federico Ravell sale de la directiva de Globovisión, El Nacional". Archived from the original on 2010-02-14.
- ^ a b "BBC Monitoring – Essential Media Insight – Analysis: Venezuela's media landscape is as polarised as its politics". BBC Monitoring. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
- ^ "lapatilla.com". Alexa. Archived from the original on June 17, 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ^ "Lapatilla.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". 2018-05-15. Archived from the original on 2018-05-15. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
- ^ "Venezuela: Freedom On The Net". Freedom on the Net 2013. Freedom House. 2013. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
- ^ "Cantv, proveedor de internet del Estado venezolano, bloquea portal de noticias La Patilla". Noticias Montreal. 17 May 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
- ^ "Cantv bloquea la página web La Patilla". Globovision. 17 May 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
- ^ "Lapatilla.com denuncia bloqueo a usuarios en Cantv". El Mundo. 17 May 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
- ^ "Los bloqueos de La Patilla y El Nacional revelaron una nueva forma de censura en internet". La Patilla (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-06-12.
- ^ "GNB retuvo y fichó a fotógrafos de lapatilla (Video)". La Patilla. 23 April 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
- ^ "Impactantes imágenes: la agresión al reportero de La Patilla, captada por las cámaras de NTN24". NTN24. 12 May 2014. Archived from the original on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ^ "Reportero gráfico de La Patilla es empujado y golpeado por un PNB: le rompieron el casco de un "cachazo"". NTN24. 12 May 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ^ "PNB agrede a reportero gráfico de @La_Patilla (Video)". La Patilla. 12 May 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ^ "PNB agrede nuevamente a reportero de @La_Patilla en Las Minitas (Video)". La Patilla. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ "Herido por perdigones reportero gráfico de @La_Patilla en Táchira (Fotos)". La Patilla. 27 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ^ "El CPJ pide cobertura informativa "segura" durante protestas en Venezuela". La Patilla (in European Spanish). 12 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ^ "AFP: Portal venezolano de noticias LaPatilla debe pagar casi US$ 500.000 a líder chavista Diosdado". La Patilla (in European Spanish). 31 May 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
- ^ Blasco, Emil J. (26 January 2015). "El jefe de seguridad del número dos chavista deserta a EE.UU. y le acusa de narcotráfico". ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 June 2019.
- ^ a b "Venezuela news site ordered to pay $5 million to key regime figure". Yahoo News. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
- ^ "Venezuela's Supreme Court orders La Patilla to pay US$5m in damages to Cabello". CPJ. 7 June 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2019.