🇦🇷 Free Press in Argentina: A Sign of the Times – Witness

After months of not being paid, a group of Argentinian journalists form a cooperative to take over their newspaper, Tiempo Argentino. One year later, as a wave of anti-government protests erupt across the country, the cooperative struggles to keep their newspaper afloat.

Determined to have a voice, the journalists are forced to look for ways to reach a larger audience and bring in more revenue. They decide to investigate a real estate scheme involving President Macri and the country’s most popular football club, Boca Juniors.

Under the first right-wing government elected in Argentina for more than a decade, can a newspaper survive its first year run by a cooperative of journalists?

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