El Pitazo

El Pitazo
Type of site	News site
Available in	Spanish
Headquarters	Venezuela
Editor	César Batiz
URL	elpitazo.net
Launched	2014
Current status	Online

El Pitazo is an independent Venezuelan multimedia franchise. The name "pitazo" refers to whistleblowing. It is part of the Latin American media Rebel Alliance, with Tal Cual and Runrunes. They also collaborate with NGOs to be more informed on diverse groups of people in the nation.^[1] According to El País, the aims of El Pitazo are to bring news to the most isolated areas.^[1] The company director is César Batiz.

In 2019 it won the Ortega y Gasset Award for Best Multimedia Coverage, for a report on starving children, "La generación del hambre"" (English: The generation of hunger).^[2] According to Batiz, this is the first time a Venezuelan media outlet has won the award.^[3]

^ ^a ^b "La revista '5W', 'El Pitazo', Vincent West y Darío Arizmendi, ganadores de los premios Ortega y Gasset en su 36ª edición". El País (in Spanish). 11 April 2019. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
^ "Mejor cobertura multimedia: 'La generación del hambre'". El País (in Spanish). 11 April 2019. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 14 April 2019. The report can be found at Connectas.
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[ElPais2-1] "La revista '5W', 'El Pitazo', Vincent West y Darío Arizmendi, ganadores de los premios Ortega y Gasset en su 36ª edición". El País (in Spanish). 11 April 2019. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 14 April 2019.

[EPpremio-2] "Mejor cobertura multimedia: 'La generación del hambre'". El País (in Spanish). 11 April 2019. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 14 April 2019. The report can be found at Connectas.

[KC1-3] Cite error: The named reference KC1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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