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La Patilla (English: The Watermelon) is a Venezuelan news website that was founded by Alberto Federico Ravell, co-founder and former CEO of Globovisión, in 2010. In 2014, El Nuevo Herald stated La Patilla had hundreds of thousands of visitors per daily. Beginning in early 2018, the website has been censored in Venezuela by the Nicolás Maduro government.
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. He created La Patilla the same year. 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".
In 2014, the Wall Street Journal wrote that Venezuelans "have been forced to find alternatives as newspapers and broadcasters struggle with state efforts to control coverage", with a growing trend of Venezuelans using online news media to bypass government censors. Journalists and press-freedom advocates stated that news websites like La Patilla "have helped fill a gap" since those linked to the Venezuelan government had purchased media organizations in Venezuela, such as El Universal, Globovisión and Últimas Noticias. In an article in The Wall Street Journal discussing the rising popularity of news websites in Venezuela, La Patilla CEO Ravell stated that, "The editorial line of La Patilla is to call it like it is ... We don't need paper. We don't need a broadcasting license. There's little they can do to squeeze us."
In 2019, Alexa ranked La Patilla as the 16th most popular website in Venezuela.
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.[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.
In 2013, Freedom House described La Patilla as having a pro-opposition stance. The Wall Street Journal described the website as a news aggregator.
On 17 May 2012, La Patilla was covering violent clashes occurring at a Venezuelan prison, La Planta, through a live stream video feed. Visitors of La Patilla reported that the website was experiencing "irregularities" and thought it was due to technical problems. It was discovered later that La Patilla was blocked by the government-run CANTV. CANTV blocked La Patilla's original IP address and after La Patilla changed its IP address, CANTV blocked it again. Readers of La Patilla criticized the blockage by CANTV saying it was a "violation of their right to information". Readers also assumed the blockage by the government was due to the coverage of the prison clashes. David Moran, editor of La Patilla stated that "Censorship has been multidimensional against us".
Weeks after the Venezuelan presidential election in 2018, La Patilla had their Hypertext Transfer Protocol censored from 6 June 2018 to 11 June 2018 by the state-run CANTV and private internet service providers who were complying with government regulations. Since June 2018, CANTV has blocked access to La Patilla.
La Patilla
La Patilla (English: The Watermelon) is a Venezuelan news website that was founded by Alberto Federico Ravell, co-founder and former CEO of Globovisión, in 2010. In 2014, El Nuevo Herald stated La Patilla had hundreds of thousands of visitors per daily. Beginning in early 2018, the website has been censored in Venezuela by the Nicolás Maduro government.
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. He created La Patilla the same year. 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".
In 2014, the Wall Street Journal wrote that Venezuelans "have been forced to find alternatives as newspapers and broadcasters struggle with state efforts to control coverage", with a growing trend of Venezuelans using online news media to bypass government censors. Journalists and press-freedom advocates stated that news websites like La Patilla "have helped fill a gap" since those linked to the Venezuelan government had purchased media organizations in Venezuela, such as El Universal, Globovisión and Últimas Noticias. In an article in The Wall Street Journal discussing the rising popularity of news websites in Venezuela, La Patilla CEO Ravell stated that, "The editorial line of La Patilla is to call it like it is ... We don't need paper. We don't need a broadcasting license. There's little they can do to squeeze us."
In 2019, Alexa ranked La Patilla as the 16th most popular website in Venezuela.
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.[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.
In 2013, Freedom House described La Patilla as having a pro-opposition stance. The Wall Street Journal described the website as a news aggregator.
On 17 May 2012, La Patilla was covering violent clashes occurring at a Venezuelan prison, La Planta, through a live stream video feed. Visitors of La Patilla reported that the website was experiencing "irregularities" and thought it was due to technical problems. It was discovered later that La Patilla was blocked by the government-run CANTV. CANTV blocked La Patilla's original IP address and after La Patilla changed its IP address, CANTV blocked it again. Readers of La Patilla criticized the blockage by CANTV saying it was a "violation of their right to information". Readers also assumed the blockage by the government was due to the coverage of the prison clashes. David Moran, editor of La Patilla stated that "Censorship has been multidimensional against us".
Weeks after the Venezuelan presidential election in 2018, La Patilla had their Hypertext Transfer Protocol censored from 6 June 2018 to 11 June 2018 by the state-run CANTV and private internet service providers who were complying with government regulations. Since June 2018, CANTV has blocked access to La Patilla.