La Patilla
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Type of site
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News site |
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| Available in | Spanish |
| Owner | Alberto Federico Ravell |
| Editor | David Moran |
| Slogan(s) | Noticias, Información e Investigación sobre Venezuela y el mundo. |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 573 / 5 (Global / Venezuela, May 2017)
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| Registration | None |
| Users | +4.5 million (monthly, September 2015) |
| Launched | June 11, 2010 |
| Current status | Active |
La Patilla (English: The Watermelon) is a news website that was founded by Alberto Federico Ravell, co-founder and former CEO of Globovisión, in 2010. The website is based out of Venezuela and according to Alexa, it is one of the top 600 websites visited in the world and among the top visited in Venezuela.e they can do to squeeze us." By 2017, La Patilla had grown to be among the top 5 most visited websites in Venezuela, with only Google, YouTube and Facebook being more popular in the country. It is also the top visited news website in Venezuela, ranked more popular than El Universal, Globovisión and El Nacional. La Patilla has hundreds of thousands of visitors reading daily. It has been described as having an anti-Bolivarian government stance.
La Patilla was created by co-founder and former CEO of Globovisión, Alberto Federico Ravell. In 2010, the majority shareholders of the television station asked for the resignation of the directors of Globovision which included Ravell. On 11 June 2010, Ravell then created the news website, La Patilla.
In 2015, La Patilla was one of the most popular websites in Venezuela, more popular than Twitter and any other news website. The only websites that were more popular in Venezuela were YouTube, Amazon, Google and Facebook. According to media protection organizations, Venezuelans "have been forced to find alternatives as newspapers and broadcasters struggle with state efforts to control coverage", with a growing trend of Venezuelans using online news media to bypass government censors. Journalists and press-freedom advocates also state that news websites like La Patilla "have helped fill a gap" since those linked to the Venezuelan government had purchased media organizations in Venezuela, such as El Universal, Globovisión and Ultimas Noticias. In an article by The Wall Street Journal discussing the rising popularity of news websites in Venezuela, La Patilla CEO Alberto Federico Ravell stated that, "The editorial line of La Patilla is to call it like it is ... We don't need paper. We don't need a broadcasting license. There's little they can do to squeeze us." By 2017, La Patilla had grown to be among the top 5 most visited websites in Venezuela, with only Google, YouTube and Facebook being more popular in the country.
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