The journalism of CONFIDENTIAL Y This week arrives from this Monday, February 8 to Radio Corporation Y Spotify, as a new space for independent journalism to continue defeating the censorship of the Government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in Nicaragua. “We want to have a more direct communication with our audience,” said journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, director CONFIDENTIAL Y This week, when announcing the launch of this new project.
Confidencial Radio will have a space from Monday to Friday in a five-minute news report, with the journalistic team of CONFIDENTIAL. You can hear it at 12:30 a.m. on the 12 o’clock newscast, from Radio Corporation and in Spotify. In addition, every Thursday there will be a special one-hour program at eleven in the morning.
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The Thursday program is a space “to comment on and analyze the news, to interact with the audience, to do interviews, to talk about the great reports he has done. CONFIDENTIAL, on the crisis of power, human rights violations or economic repression and especially what the dictatorship has hidden in relation to the pandemic, “added Chamorro.
“This year 2021 we want to have a more direct communication with our audience, and that is why we have decided to go to the radio, go to the Blue and White signal of Radio Corporation to share news and at the same time comments, analysis, interviews and to be able to dialogue with the Corporation’s audience, which is also part of the audience of CONFIDENTIAL”Said the journalist during a previous interview on Radio Corporación.
Do journalism to defeat censorship
Chamorro recalled that the programs This week Y Tonight were removed from open television and cable, on the orders of Telcor in January 2019. Just weeks after the newsroom was attacked and confiscated in December 2018. However, he stressed that despite this “we have continued uninterruptedly doing journalism, on social media, on television on YouTube, and on Facebook and on the website of CONFIDENTIAL”.
Despite the persecution, the siege and the official censorship, the independent journalism of CONFIDENTIAL speaks for its results, its research, its news, its credibility and for the trust that our readers, audiences, viewers have given us and we are happy to start this new initiative of CONFIDENTIAL in Radio Corporation”He commented.
The function of independent journalism in this election year, he added, is “to investigate power, the crisis of the dictatorship and also to supervise the new political actors that have emerged in the country, the new civic movements.”
“Citizens have the right to ask questions and we as journalists want to represent that right to monitor political forces,” he emphasized.
He pointed out that to the political actors, “the population is demanding not only to unite, but also to represent a platform for changes in the country to get out of the dictatorship and to dismantle it and open a space for democratic reconstruction in Nicaragua. Journalism has to have a watchdog function in this process and it is part of who we want to be ”.
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