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News reporting in Venezuela is contentious, with various sources being reported by people of differing political views to be biased, manipulative, or outright lying. By consensus across the Misplaced Pages community, State sources of Venezuela are unreliable. Independent sources operating in the country and in neighboring nations, several using citizen journalism, are seen as more reliable for Venezuela-specific reports.
Generally reliable sources
Per a talkpage discussion and proposal within the WikiProject, the following sources — with their associated advice — are seen as generally reliable for news regarding Venezuela, specifically news that is not available from mainstream Western media and press associations. The Venezuela branches of Reuters and the AP are also seen as reliable. The Venezuela WikiProject has not discussed reliability of other sources in relation to the topic.
| Name | Extra information |
|---|---|
| Efecto Cocuyo | Founded by independent female journalists who have all been threatened by the Bolivarian government, its director has won a press freedom award and was one of the "Guardians" profiled as TIME Person of the Year 2018. Furthermore, no area of the country or news story seems too small, meaning they likely have coverage of just about anything, with multiple updates daily and an easy-to-navigate site. |
| La Patilla | One of the most popular websites in Venezuela, operated by the former CEO of Globovisión, but regularly censored so may be inaccessible. |
| Prodavinci | This is the "one-stop shop" for analytical journalism by politicians, historians, and various other professionals; it also has quite a strict attitude against opinion pieces. |
| El Pitazo | Its director is widely seen as the best journalist in the country, it does cover daily news but is more notable for its award-winning long form multimedia reports on the state of the nation; this is particularly good for statistics and analysis. |
| Armando.Info | Investigative journalism in Venezuela cannot be beat by independent site armando.info - they're the Bellingcat of the country. |
| El Nacional | Comprehensive in all areas, respected internationally. |
| El Universal | Very similar to El Nacional. |
| VPItv | A sidekick to the large rebel alliance, with the downside that as a largely video-based service (operating mostly on YouTube when it becomes inevitably blocked) it may not always be seen as reputable. |
| Caracas Chronicles | Technically a blog, but run by respected journalists and often has interviews with people in the news, and it's all in English. |
| Cinco8 | Caracas Chronicles' Spanish-language sister. |
| Tal Cual | |
| El Nuevo Herald | Miami based newspaper that has good coverage of the diaspora in the area. |
| Miami Herald | English-language sibling of El Nuevo Herald. |
| Runrunes | |
| El Estímulo | |
| VIVOplay | |
| Voice of America & Voz de América | Note that there are two fields of coverage in Venezuela, one that is independently run, and the other which has its main presenter/host who also explores Madurismo perspectives. However, he's a good journalist and handles it neutrally, so this only needs to be given a question of bias (rather than avoiding). |
| Aporrea | Bolivarian government supportive but, in news (avoid the opinion pieces), it does not have the insert of opinion that other Maduro-supporting sources do, so is more reliable than those for plain information on Maduro-government-aligned people. Has had more editorial independence recently, so it shouldn't be completely ruled out of unbiased consideration. See also: RfC: Aporrea |
Blacklisted
The following sources have been blacklisted through RfC's. In addition, there is an ongoing discussion of CoinDesk, which may affect Venezuela articles dealing with cryptocurrency.
| Name | Extra information |
|---|---|
| HispanTV | RfC: "overwhelming consensus that HispanTV is both generally unreliable and that sometimes it even publishes outright fabrications" |
| TeleSur | RfC: "consensus exists to deprecate Telesur as a source" See also: Citing gov't claims from TeleSur and TeleSur English deprecated. |
| Venezuelanalysis | RfC: "generally unreliable for factual reporting" See also: Very long discussion, Discussion in reference to Chávez article 1 and Chávez discussion 2. |