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16-579: El Faro may refer to: El Faro (digital newspaper) , an online newspaper founded in 1998 The Lighthouse (1998 film) (original title: El faro ), an Argentine-Spanish drama El Faro Restaurant , a Spanish restaurant in New York City that closed in 2012 El Faro Towers , a high-rise residential complex of two, twin interconnected skyscrapers in Buenos Aires SS ; El Faro ,

32-474: A cargo ship that sank with all hands in 2015 Punta Maldonado in the Mexican state of Guerrero, alternatively known as El Faro See also [ edit ] Faro (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title El Faro . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

48-556: A documentary, produced in collaboration with the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba. In 2011, El Faro founded Sala Negra, an investigative team that gained widespread acclaim for its coverage of violence and public security in Central America, with a focus on gangs, drug trafficking and organized crime. Sala Negra offered the first coverage of violence in Central America from

64-498: A regional perspective, investigating the internal dynamics and historical mutations of the Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13) and 18th Street Gangs, analyzing the impact of public policy and state absence in processes of violence, and profiling some of the largest drug trafficking groups in the region. Among El Faro's most renowned works is the 2010 interview, "How We Killed Monseñor Romero," in which Captain Álvaro Saravia, of

80-805: The Panama Papers and Paradise Papers investigations, as well as in Mining Secrets, a 2021 transnational journalism project led by Forbidden Stories, focused on the illegal operation of a Swiss-Russian nickel mine in Guatemala. In October 2019, El Faro launched El Faro English, a project set on expanding the outlet's international audience and impact. The project began as a weekly current events newsletter and has evolved into an English-language edition that also encompasses original English-language reporting and analysis and adapts El Faro's Spanish-language work for an anglophone audience primarily living in

96-561: The Salvadoran Armed Forces, confessed the details of how he conspired in planning the 1980 assassination of Monsignor Óscar Arnulfo Romero. The outlet has also co-produced journalistic projects with international outlets and newsrooms including The New York Times, El País, Univision, Radio Ambulante, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). El Faro worked alongside ICIJ in

112-548: The Spanish collective Ruido Photo traveled the trails of undocumented migrants from Central America through Mexico, revealing grave human rights abuses, the weaknesses of Mexican migration policy, and drug traffickers' role in the violence inflicted upon migrants. This project resulted in a series of long-form chronicles —which were published regularly in El Faro and later edited into books by Spanish publishers Icaria and Blume— and

128-593: The U.S. policies affecting their lives and the future of Central America. Since 2010, El Faro has organized the Central American Journalism Forum (ForoCAP), an annual gathering open to the public where journalists from across the hemisphere meet for professional training, to debate industry issues, and to find solutions to shared challenges. At ForoCAP 2022 in Antigua Guatemala, a collective of three-dozen journalists from across

144-483: The United States. In addition to providing socio-political information on Central America to international policymakers, researchers and academics, NGO and aid workers, and journalists, El Faro English seeks to serve and gain relevance in diaspora communities through original reporting focused on their migratory history and processes, political and cultural evolution, current ties to their countries of origin, and

160-466: The idea that journalism is important for the development of democracy," defending "an independent editorial line that defends freedom of the press and expression and promotes a critical analysis of current events in El Salvador and the region. This has permitted El Faro to maintain an editorial stance critical of different governments, whether left- or right-leaning, who have alternated in power since

176-408: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=El_Faro&oldid=1182909400 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages El Faro (digital newspaper) Since the first day of publication, El Faro has "has hewed to

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192-516: The news outlet was founded." In 2019, El Faro launched its English-language edition, which includes a weekly newsletter on Central American current events. El Faro published its first article on May 14, 1998, making it the first internet-native, digital-only news outlet in Latin America. It was founded by journalist Carlos Dada and businessman Jorge Simán, both from El Salvador, on April 25, 1998. Dada has served as editorial director since

208-460: The newsroom. For years they met every day in an office lent to them by Jorge Simán to publish their first articles. In 2023, El Faro had a staff of 35 full-time employees. El Faro has developed into a multimedia journalism organization covering politics, corruption, organized crime, violence, inequality, historical memory, and migration across Central America and its diasporas. Apart from its digital print coverage in its Spanish and English editions,

224-516: The outlet has over the years produced short and full-length documentary films, a weekly radio show, podcast channels in Spanish and English, and internationally acclaimed books compiling and translating its best reporting. From October 2008 to December 2009, El Faro produced "En el camino" ("Along the Path"), in-depth multimedia coverage of Central American migration. For a year and a half, a team of reporters, documentary filmmakers, and photographers from

240-431: The outlet's founding, with the exception of six years: The newsroom was helmed from September 2014 until December 2020 by Spanish journalist José Luis Sanz. Simán oversaw business operations until 2015. Dada and Simán were the only shareholders until 2014 when, as part of the collective spirit of the project, Sanz was the first member of the newsroom to receive shares. At the time of El Faro's transfer to Costa Rica in 2023,

256-488: The owners, apart from Dada, Simán, and Sanz, were Carlos Martínez, Sergio Arauz, Daniel Valencia, Óscar Martínez, Ricardo Vaquerano and Élmer Menjívar. Each of them is a current or former member of El Faro. El Faro began without any financial resources, leading to the creation of a digital-only news site instead of a print newspaper. The first generation of El Faro journalists were mostly college students; writer Francisco Andrés Escobar recommended his best pupils to Dada to form

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