Yelsin Espinoza, journalist from Nicaragua Actual, is preparing to present the most important news in Nicaragua in the evening news broadcast on YouTube and Facebook.
“Today’s Nicaragua is a means of communication in purely digital format,” says the communicator.
The broadcast is made from San José, Costa Rica, where most of the editorial staff is exiled due to the persecution of the state of Nicaragua against the independent press.
“We address these issues that are fundamental pillars, the sociopolitical context of Nicaragua, the human rights situation, public freedoms in our country, democracy in our Nicaragua,” says Espinoza, in an interview with the Voice of America.
In another part of San José, Elmer Rivas, journalist, producer and presenter for the Confidencial media, is also preparing to record content for social networks.
“Confidencial is an independent Nicaraguan media outlet that works from exile. It is a multi-platform media outlet that is present on all social networks. It had a television program at the time in Nicaragua but it was censored and now we continue producing it.” from exile,” said Elmer Rivas, producer of Confidencial
Confidencial and Nicaragua Actual are part of the independent media that have the largest audience on the internet, despite the fact that they work from exile.
“The Confidential YouTube channel alone has almost 490,000 subscribers, hundreds of thousands more join the different social networks on Facebook in X,” says Rivas.
“We are talking about Nicaragua Actual having around 400,000 subscriber followers who watch us on YouTube, who follow us on Facebook, who follow us on Instagram, on X, on Twitter, but also on the Telegram channel,” said Gerall Chávez. , director of Nicaragua Actual.
Various studies, such as that of the CID Gallup firm, reveal that the majority of Nicaraguans prefer to consume news from independent media than to obtain information through the dozens of government media. Something with which the Foundation for Freedom of Expression and Democracy agrees.
“The official press does not do journalism, what it does is describe, narrate and read the script that is passed to it from the different instances of the Executive Branch; On the other hand, the independent press asks, questions and investigates and in the official media, what they do is public relations and that is not journalism,” Guillermo Medrano of the Foundation for Freedom of Expression and Democracy.
However, one of the concerns that exists within independent media is the possibility that Daniel Ortega’s government blocks digital portals, as has happened in Venezuela.
Within the framework of the sociopolitical crisis that broke out in 2018, the government closed more than 50 independent media outlets, an action that led to the birth of more than twenty digital media outlets.
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