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Fundamental protection
Freedom of expression, journalist safety, regulatory independence, access.
Method
How we read
No generic dashboard was built for our geography. We built our own framework, combining four traditions, comparative media systems (Hallin & Mancini), pluralism monitoring (MPM), expert reading (V-Dem) and information ecosystems (Internews), and adapted it to Mexico, Latin America and Africa. It is a framework with judgment and with a point of view, not a neutral instrument.
The system, from the inside
Six dimensions
We read each system through Hallin & Mancini's four dimensions, market structure, political parallelism, professionalisation and the role of the state, plus two that this geography demands.
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How we score
Five reading lenses
We take the four domains of the Media Pluralism Monitor, extend one and add another. Each lens is read on a Low / Medium / High scale.
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Market plurality
Ownership and audience concentration (HHI, CR4, Noam index), transparency, commercial influence.
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Political independence
Parallelism, state control, official advertising, editorial autonomy.
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Social inclusion extended
Community media, indigenous languages, gender, and oral and informal sources.
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Platforms and creators new
Platform dependence, the influencer landscape, WhatsApp/TikTok flows.
The demand side
How information circulates
The structural framework describes the supply; Internews's ecosystem model adds the demand side, eight dimensions, essential where consumption flows through WhatsApp, TikTok and oral networks.
Needs
Landscape
Production and movement
Access
Use
Impact
Trust
Influencers
Where the reading comes from
Three sources, layered
Harvest
We gather the media stream of all three regions into our own multilingual, continuous corpus.
Automated and structural reading
Across the corpus: topic and narrative, critical coverage, bias, coordination; and the hard data, ownership, concentration (HHI, CR4), official advertising.
Expert reading
Our analysts sharpen the reading with country judgment: what the data hints at and the context confirms.
Why we read this way
A reading with a point of view
We are not after neutrality: we are after being accurate and useful. A clear reading of who controls the conversation, how it moves and where the levers are is what sets advising apart from opining.