After the success of
El Morrocotudo in
Arica (the north gate of Chile), the same team from
Atina Chile has set up two new media outlets based on citizen journalism. They are
El Rancahuaso in
Rancagua and
El Amaule in Talca (central Chile). Both site names are a combination of Spanish words that sound appealing to local people.
El Morrocotudo was launched first. It greets the additional sites in an editorial explaining that participating in this kind of efforts means that you're not a citizen "just for the election days."
Also, as a demonstration of its success, it has begun a fidelity program that awards points to correspondents for each article posted: the more you post, the more you earn. The highest-scoring correspondents will win prizes from a telecommunications company.
