Maite Fernandez provides an overview of how news organisations have taken to the web in Uruguay
In Uruguay there are nearly 50 information websites, of which only five are considered as the main competitive news websites in Uruguay:
- www.elpais.com.uy (from the newspaper El País)
- www.observa.com.uy (from the newspaper El Observador)
- www.espectador.com.uy (from the news radio El Espectador)
- www.180.com.uy (independent)
- www.montevideo.com.uy (independent)
Two of them are part of newspaper companies (El Pais.com and Observa.com), one is from a news radio company (El Espectador.com), and the other two are independent. 180.com.uy started last October.
I studied El Pais.com, comparing it to the Argentinian news website Clarin.com. I’ve found that, in general, news companies in Uruguay do not yet see the Internet as a field to invest in, and they still invest money and hire employees for the paper publication (in the case of websites that come from newspapers). Continue reading