De Los Cintis

The profile information of this media was collected through desktop research and an interview with its founder. The digital newspaper De Los Cintis is a regional citizen journalism media that covers the news of the Cintis region, which corresponds to two provinces in the department of Chuquisaca and includes seven municipalities: San Lucas, Camargo, Incahuasi and Villa Charcas of the Nor Cinti province; and Culpina, Villa Abecia and Las Carreras in the Sud Cinti province. In addition to being digital journalism from non-capital cities, the particularity of the medium is that it has established a citizen network of collaboration at different levels of participation. The greatest involvement is that of around twenty collaborators distributed in the seven municipalities. They do the reporting tasks and transfer the information by telephone to the editor, who is in charge of guiding the reporting and the journalistic treatment of the information, explains the editor and founder Luis Alberto Guevara López, who manages journalistic production from the city of Sucre, capital of the department of Chuquisaca and Bolivia. Another level of participation occurs through six WhatsApp groups, with an average of 170 members each, which function at the same time as a source, audience and space open to dialogue. The main call to join the groups was made through a WhatsApp link shared through Facebook. Currently, the media has generated some income from local advertising and is analyzing possible business models.