Talk:El Pitazo

La generación del hambre

 * El País
 * 8 month investigation on the effects of the economic policies of Venezuela, and especially "the most intimate in human lives": hunger and malnutrition.
 * Follows a group of children because nutrition in the first 5 years of life is the most important. Result is "saddening" because it shows these children suffering irreversible damage.
 * Knight Center
 * Led by journalist Johanna Osorio Herrera; support from Connectas
 * "First time a Venezuelan media outlet has won [the award]" - Pitazo director César Batiz
 * Prize for award is 15,000 euro and a sculpture by Eduardo Chillida
 * El Nacional
 * Ceremony on 9 May in Madrid
 * Tal Cual
 * Jury on Pitazo "They are a group of young and admirable journalists who take risks and who go to the place where things happen, to find the facts and report them"
 * 14 journalists
 * ceremony in Auditorio Caixaforum de Madrid
 * El País 2
 * One child died

In general

 * El País 2
 * Aim to bring news to the most isolated people/areas
 * collaborate with NGOs to get more info on wide groups of people
 * Univision
 * Pitazo contributed to the Univision report on the Narcosobrinos affair
 * Caracas Chronicles
 * interview with Pitazo director on being blocked
 * no blocks were given an explanation; no requests had been made to block it
 * First blocked 8 Sep 2017 by ABA Cantv and Digitel, and on 1 Nov '17 by Movistar; had to change web address due to lack of access
 * changed from ElPitazo.com to ElPitazo.info on 15 Jan 2018
 * but that was blocked on 10 April by ABA Cantv (Crónica Uno)
 * now prepared, move to ElPitazo.ml same day (KC below: had already acquired a Malaysian hosted domain)
 * August 2018 blocked by above providers and Inter and SuperCable; moved web address again, but took some time - in the intervening period, other news outlets (non-alliance) published their articles "in solidarity"
 * Knight Center 2 report that IPYS Venezuela tests showed the site was intermittently blocked and across different states at different times, achieving the same effect in reducing traffic, but which is what made it take longer to change web address
 * Had multiple DDoS reports making it hard to publish content, but used Facebook to try to overcome this
 * Promotes use of VPN to access site; IPYS say that they also developed offline solutions like public talks and printing in bookstores
 * Rebel Alliance also allowed direct uploads to Tal Cual and Runrunes
 * report by Johny Rahal, 2018 AN President of the Commission for Media, on the blockings that determined CONATEL and Cantv responsible; Batiz planned to take the report to human rights groups
 * Director thinks that the blocks might be because they publish stories that are "uncomfortable" for the government, but can't say for certain
 * In July 2018 they published a high-profile report on PDVSA corruption
 * Espacio Público
 * Cyber attacks to servers in June and July 2018