Juan Carlos

Photographer
      
Location: San Salvador, El Salvador
Nationality: USA/El Salvador
Biography: I am a freelance photographer, born in El Salvador, Central America but immigrated to the United States during the mid-1980's. I have developed a vocation as a photojournalist and over the course of my career I have documented human rights... MORE
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A Beacon, Thanks to the Internet
juan carlos .
Sep 7, 2017

Some of us were forced into journalism − we had little choice. In 1998, El Salvador was emerging from a long civil war and we were feeling our way forward, with no towering figure to guide us. But we were convinced that the post-war period needed a revitalised press, with a fresh perspective and independent voices. The country deserved a new journalism, and we provided it.

El Faro (link is external) [The Beacon] was started in May 1998, with absolutely no funding. That's why we launched it on the internet, at a time when barely two per cent to five per cent of the Salvadorian population had access to it. Our existence depended on new technologies, because we could never have afforded the expense of running a printed newspaper. Opting for the internet turned out to be a very lucky decision for us, given that at the time, we were a million miles away from imagining the influence the web would have on the future of humanity.

ENGLISH: https://en.unesco.org/courier/2017-july-september/beacon-thanks-internet

SPANISH: https://es.unesco.org/courier/2017-julio-septiembre/red-no-ella?utm_source=The+UNESCO+Courier&utm_campaign=48b093b224-201708_the_unesco_courier&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_898ed31396-48b093b224-442064673&mc_cid=48b093b224&mc_eid=7cd4f7c5be

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