Tiempoar.com.ar
Tiempo Argentino is a self-managed media, written by around 100 journalists who decided to create a cooperative to recover the newspaper where they used to work and that was suddenly closed by Grupo 23’s owners, Sergio Szpolski and Matías Garfunkel. Tiempo Argentino reopened as a self-managed media with a print version on Sundays and a digital newspaper from Mondays to Saturdays.
The newspaper did not have its own website, so workers decided to create it from scratch with the few resources they had. At the very beginning, it was a place to promote the newspaper until a digital editorial team was created to update information 24/7.
In mid-2018, after two years of operation, the cooperative launched a re-designed newspaper and a new website, easier to navigate and with a new logo.
Tiempoar has 1.6 million monthly visitors on average.
Unlike the country’s main newspapers, Tiempo Argentino has no paid news system. Access to the website is free. However, some articles are first published for subscribers/members and released to the general public hours later. A similar system has been established to access the digital version of the newspaper.
Ownership Type
Workers’ cooperative
Geographic Coverage
International
Content Type
Free content
Media Companies / Groups
Tiempo Argentino
Ownership Structure
Tiempoar.com.ar belongs to Cooperativa de Trabajo Por Más Tiempo Limitada.
Voting Rights
Decision-making takes place at the cooperative’s General Meeting, which is attended by all the cooperative’s workers. Each worker has a vote and decisions are made by majority vote.
Individual Owner
General Information
Founding Year
2016
Affiliated Interests Founder
It comprises those press workers who organized themselves as a workers’ cooperative to recover the media where they used to work, when the media’s former owners decided to close it without previous notice and without providing workers with any compensation. It has no external financial support and does not report formally to any political, social or economic organization.
Affiliated Interests Ceo
He is President of the workers’ cooperative. He is a press worker with over ten years of experience as writer. He has no links to any political or business organization.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
He is Web Editor-In-Chief. He is a press worker and professor.
Contact
Financial Information
Revenue (in Mill. $)
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Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
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Advertising (in % of total funding)
USD89,376 / $2,510,575
Market Share
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Further Information
Tiempo de resurrección (2016), visitado el 2 de enero de 2019
Meta Data
Advertising figures include private and official advertising in 2018.
Visits represent the monthly average of visitors between October 2018 and January 2019, according to Google Analytics.
