Siege and Resistance: Media, Journalism, and Democracy in Colombia

What is it about?

The Colombian media model contains particularities that we will categorize as besieged neoliberal model. Neoliberal, rather than liberal, given the dynamics of ownership of the dominant media against parallel systems of state, public interest, community, and alternative media. Besieged, rather than captured, because even though media and journalists in Colombia have faced brutal pressures from official, factual, and illegal powers aiming to silence freedom of expression, a liberal, reformist and democratic ethos prevails among journalists. Such ethos has allowed the emergence of collaborative journalism initiatives, public information proposals and alternative communication projects in favour of peace, the environment, human rights, the control of power and other progressive agendas.

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