Tane Tanae

Every day in the middle of breakfast, the six people who make up the team of Tane Tanae, Así paso, the first digital media that operates in Tucupita, capital of Delta Amacuro, coordinate the agenda of the day. The commitment to tell what happens in the second least populated state of Venezuela, 167,500 inhabitants in 2011 and the seventh largest (40,200 km²), is not the only thing that unites them. They all belong to the indigenous Warao ethnic group, explains its founder and editor Amador Medina. “We are dedicated to covering national realities with an impact on Delta Amacuro and local problems,” describes the Graduate in Tourism. Passionate about radio since he was 13, he found his vocation when he began working on news with the Radio Fe y Alegría website. There he discovered “that there was a lot to tell” and together with Francisco Pérez, regional director of the radio circuit, they founded Tane Tanae. A journalist, 3 students of Social Communication and a recently graduated nurse who supports them as a sales executive, complete the staff. Mobilized by public transport, with a single smartphone, two Canaima computers (laptops of a flagship program of the national government), and two desktop computers that they use at the Fe y Alegría headquarters, they solve articles, photos and videos from four sources: community, events, politics and sports. Although Medina assures that they have expanded their client base, the numbers are still not enough to do investigative journalism. Recognize that the hostility that can emerge from there also stops them. In addition to thinking about expanding the information offer, they are pending the hiring of someone to interact with users on their social networks, which are currently updated automatically with each publication.