Las2orillas.co

Las 2 Orillas is an independent digital media. Its importance lies in the possibility it offers to access sources of information different from the traditional media. As it is not an extension of a traditional media, it provides the possibility of knowing new visions and analysis of the events. Las Dos Orillas has quickly positioned itself as a reference site of information, today occupying good places in the rankings that measure the traffic of users among the Internet pages of the country

The media offers varied content of general themes. The site provices the possibility to the audience of sending their own news through the section “nota ciudadana”.

Key facts

Audience Share

Alexa Rank 2015: 49

Ownership Type

Private

Geographic Coverage

International

Content Type

Paid Content

Active Disguise

in addition to unavailability of true data, ownership is disguised, e. g. through bogus companies, etc.

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Ownership

Ownership Structure

The media is created by several renowned journalists and columnists of the country, however a structure of the percent of shares of each founding partner is not known.

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General Information

Founding Year

2013

Founder

María Elvira Bonilla, León Valencia, Elisa Pastrana, Rafael Santos, Jorge Enrique Botero, Marta Ruiz, Natalia Orozco, Margarita Londoño, Alonso Salazar, Adriana Mejía, Ricardo Correa, Sergio Álvarez Adriana Arcila and Fernando Otoya.

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María Elvira Bonilla Otoya | She began her journalistic career in Semana. She was director of Revista Cromos, deputy director of Noticiero Nacional and of Noticias RCN, and participated in La Revista, a project of the newspaper El Espectador. For her work

Editor-In-Chief

Other Important People

Adriana Mejía

She worked in Canal UNE Medellín, as host of the program Libros during 2003 and 2004. In 2002, she worked in Teleantioquia, in the opinion program Espacio público. Between 1998 and 2002, she Director of the Editorial Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. In two occasions, she has won the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award. She has also won the Ibero-American Journalism Award:

Alonso Salazar Jaramillo

In the elections of October 2015, he was a candidate for Mayor of Medellín for the Alianza Social Independiente (ASI). In 2012, he was removed and suspended to work in public office for 12 years after a penalty of the Attorney General’s Office. This penalty was the result of an investigation conducted by the control body for Salazar’s allegations of alleged coercion by paramilitary groups and criminal bands in favor of Luis Emilio Pérez Gutiérrez (candidate for Mayor of Medellín in 2011). The penalty was revoked by the State Council after considering it disproportionate. He has worked in several public positions: He was Mayor of Medellín (2008-2011) for the Alianza Soicial Indígena (ASI); He was Government Secretary of Sergio Fajardo during his administration in Medellin’s City Hall, also together with Fajardo, Salazar was an active part of the formation of the Movimiento Compromiso Ciudadano in 2001; In 1997, he was a candidate for the Medellín Council for the Alianza Social Indígena (ASI), but the vote obtained did not allow him to get a seat. He worked in TeleMedellín, CityTv and El Colombiano. During almost 10 years, he worked in Teleantioquia, as Co-director of Noticiero El Mundo (1987 – 1998). In 2003, he won the Premio Planeta de Periodismo:

Jorge Enrique Botero

He has worked as press, radio and television journalist. He was Information Director of Telesur. Position to which he resigned to cover the negotiation process between the Colombian governemt and the Farc in Havana. In 2003, he won the award Nuevo Periodismo Cemex-FNPI, for the report “Cómo voy a olvidarte”, with which he also won the Sol de Oro to best journalistic product in the Festival de Sant Feliú de Guixols, in Catalonia, Spain. In addition, in 1995 he won the King of Spain Journalism Award. In the political arena, Jorge Enrique Botero is remembered for the event starring with Fernando Botero Zea (former Defense Minister of Ernesto Samper) in which, under the scandal Proceso 8000, Botero Zea reads a copy of the inquest made to Santiago Medina -Treasurer of Samper’s campaign- committing a violation of the confidentiality of the investigation, which added to the subsequent facts and investigations, led to Botero Zea’s resignation to his position in the ministry. As a writer, Jorge Enrique Botero is renowned for the wide bibliography that he has written about the Farc. Many of his books and reports on the guerrilla have sparked controversy in the country. Among his most famous books are: La vida no es fácil, papi: Tanja Nijmeij (2011), Simón Trinidad, el hombre de hierro (2008), Espérame en el cielo, capitán (2004):

León Valencia

He is the director of Fundación Paz y Reconciliación. He served in the National Liberation Army ELN. Group of which he demobilized in 1994 with the Corriente de Renovación Socialista (dissident group) after signing an agreement with César Gaviria’s government. He participated in the creation of the Corporación Nuevo Arcoíris (CNAI) in 1996, organization that was founded by 130 partners, (mainly reinserted) to make social projects. Currently CNAI is a center of thought, investigation and social action. León Valencia left CNAI to form Fundación Paz y Reconciliación and participate of the project Las2Orillas. Media in which he is part of the Board of Directors and of the Editorial Board. He has been columnist of EL Tiempo, El Espectador, Semana, etc:

Margarita Londoño Vélez

Between 1998 and 2002, she was Senator for the Movimiento Oxígeno Liberal. She was a candidate for Mayor of Cali in 1997 and 2000. In the political arena, she is renowned for submitting in 1999 a bill to recognize the rights of bisexual and homosexual people. She was Director of Diario de Occidente and participated in thecreation of Telepacífico:

Marta Ruiz

She has been a television reporter for programs of Canal Caracol, Canal Capital and Señal Colombia. She has worked as journalist in Cromos and Semana, media to which she has been editor for security and conflict:

Natalia Orozco

Since 2005, she is correspondent of Radio Francia Internacional. In 2013, she worked as journalist in Blu Radio. During 2006 and 2011, she was correspondent in Washington of RCN televisión and NTN24. Between 2004 and 2005, she was correspondent in Paris of RCN televisión and NTN24. During 2002 and 2004, she was correspondent in Paris of the newspaper El Colombiano for political, economical, socila and cultural issues. She was Cultural Advisor in Medellín’s City Hall between 1998 and 2000, during the administration of Juan Gómez Martínez. In 2014, she won the Premio CPB to best television work. She hsa won the Simón Bolívar Journalism Award in two oportunities (2012 and 2011):

Rafael Santos

He was the director of the newspaper El Tiempo. He is the son of Hernando Santos Castillo (director of the newspaper El Tiempo during the period 1981-1999), brother of Francisco Santos (former vice president of the republic, candidate for Mayor of Bogotá for the Centro Democrático for the period 2016-2019) and cousin of Juan Manuel Santos (president of the republic, 2010-2014, 2014-2018):

Sergio Álvarez

He is journalist, writer and scriptwriter. Among his most relevant works are: La Lectora (2004), which was adapted for television by Canal RCN; Mapaná (2006); and 35 muertos.