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00:00Listín Diario presents Sunday Reflections.

00:04Reflections from the editor for Sunday, May 11, 2025.

00:08Journalism with courage and guts.

00:10Not so long ago, the world's most important media outlets were in the hands of a few.

00:15The problem? That this clashed with the dream of a truly free press,

00:19untethered to political or corporate interests.

00:22But then the digital revolution arrived, advertising collapsed,

00:25and many traditional media outlets closed or sold.

00:28Thousands of journalists were left out of work.

00:31The good news is that creativity began there.

00:34Alternative and digital media outlets were born, communication cooperatives,

00:39journalism was reinvented.

00:41Some brave individuals even managed to get their owners to hand over control to the workers.

00:46Others launched into hybrid media.

00:48Radio, television, digital, and thus the boom of cooperative multimedia was born.

00:54And we had to experience it firsthand.

00:5722 years ago, the government kicked us out of our newspapers.

01:01Yes, they took over Listín Diario, Última Hora, El Expresso, and El Financiero.

01:07Overnight, we were out of work and even stigmatized.

01:10But instead of giving up, we banded together and created Grupo Multidiarios S.A.

01:15with what with few resources, but with a strong desire to do worthwhile journalism.

01:20So we launched, first it was Diarioadiario.com.do, digital of course.

01:26Then we moved into radio with Diario de la Tarde.

01:30And then TV, Diario de la Noche, channels 45 and 52,

01:34and Diario del Domingo, on Color Vision.

01:38All this in just one year.

01:40Yes, we were hyped journalism fans.

01:43In April 2004, we founded Diario at Diario,

01:47a free, independent, and critical weekly,

01:49not to oppose the government, but to do things right.

01:52I was the director along with Ruddy González,

01:55deputy director, and Fabio Cabral, editor-in-chief.

01:58At the time, I said,

02:00a new media outlet in our country is always good news.

02:03More options for readers, more democracy,

02:05and it will be free because we believe in access to information.

02:10It lasted ten years until many of us returned to our positions

02:13following a Supreme Court ruling,

02:15but that experience made one thing clear to us.

02:17Independent journalism does exist if it's done seriously,

02:21not with clickbait, respecting the law,

02:24but without self-censorship.

02:25Also, if it's done without fear of power,

02:28or of those who tell you,

02:29don't publish that,

02:31and above all, without selling out to dark interests,

02:34for Listine Diario, voiceover and translation by Danny Leon.

02:38Listine Diario presented Sunday Reflections.

Director's Reflections | Journalism with courage (and guts)

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