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Peru's Media Faces a Crisis Within a Crisis | NACLA

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With Peru's mainstream media concentrated in a few hands, citizens turn to the internet to challenge hegemonic narratives. The results are not always utopian.

Midway through January, the journalist Rosa Chávez traveled to La Pampa, a district in the coastal region of Áncash, Peru. Throughout her stay, she had limited access to the internet and relied on two free television channels for news updates: TVPerú, the state channel, and Latina, the country’s second most important private broadcaster. By that point, some 50 Peruvians had died during the protests that have shaken the country since December 2022. “But throughout that week,” Chávez said, “I did not see any coverage of those deaths or the reasons behind them.” On January 22, the Peruvian…

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