Generación invisible (''Invisible Generation'') was the first
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
n collective
journalistic weblog which started September 2004. Its creator was
Christian Pardo Quinn, also known as ''gatocpardo''.
It started as a blog aggregator, hosted by
Blogger.com
Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 which enables multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. Pyra Labs developed it before being acquired by Google in 2003. Google hosts the blogs, which can be accessed thr ...
, where entries posted by members appeared in a main page. Later, in 2006, they started to publish new material on its own website about several issues. All its members are professional journalists who claim to be "independent and without antecedents or links with political or economical, legal or illegal, significant activities," interested in "helping to build a better world through the unfading, unlimited cult to the truth".
''Generación invisible'' was awarded with the
CPB Journalism Award, internet category, in February 2006. According to the jury, ''"though it has a lack of design, this portal carries out its content function. Its quality lies in being the first window open to every school of thought. It's a wide space in a country without many wide spaces to win"''. At the moment it had 27 members, but as for March 2007 it had 12.
On 6 August 2007, Generación Invisible relaunched its website.
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External links
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Christian Pardo's Blog
Portal News Website
Citizen journalism
Journalism in Colombia
Colombian news websites
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