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News Nicaragua - For most part of the 20th century, Nicaragua was in turmoil and the news often surrounded around the civil war activities going on in the country. Censorship was imposed on media during the Sandinista period. Although censorship was only for a brief period, the influence of Sandinistas was felt in the media till the 1990s. The news content were highly partisan and sensationalist in character. But after the elections of 1990s, a drastic change was felt in the print and broadcast media. Today, the country has embraced the traditions of media in the other parts of the world and provides independent news. Nicaragua today has several newspapers, television channels, radio stations and Internet sites exclusively dedicated to news and current affairs. Spanish is widely used in almost all forms of media. Websites remain the important source of news in English.

Newspaper Nicaragua - some of the important newspapers are La Prensa, El Nuevo Diario, Trinchera and Bolsa de Noticias. Language used in all these newspapers is Spanish. Majority of the space in these papers are dedicated national news and news from Central America and Latin America. Most of these newspapers also have online editions. Washington Post is the only English newspaper readily available, and that mainly in Managua.

News Nicaragua can also be found with Telenica, Televicentro and 100% Noticias El Canal the popular television channels. Spanish is the medium of communication in television channels. Radio Nicaragua continues to be greatest news source for rural Nicaraguans. There are a host of radio stations in Nicaragua. Radio Ya is one the most popular stations.

Internet news media are many and most of them concentrate on current affairs, popular news items and columns. Notifax, Tera and MSN (Spanish) are the popular sites in Spanish. Nicaragua, Big News Network, EIN News, Inside Nicaragua, Nicaragua News, One World, Topix are some of the popular Internet sites.

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