PanAm Post

The PanAm Post is a libertarian website that specializes in international subjects as well as topics in the Americas from a free market perspective. The website focuses on multilingual and international content in order to follow "the tradition of PanAmericanism". It was founded in 2013 and its headquarters is in Miami, Florida.[1]

PanAm Post
Logo of PanAm Post
Type of site
News site
Available inEnglish, Spanish
Founder(s)Luis Henrique Ball Zuloaga
EditorVanessa Vallejo y Orlando Avendaño
URLwww.panampost.com
Alexa rank10,146 (June 12 2020)
RegistrationNone
Launched2013
Current statusActive

History

The site was founded in 2013 by Luis Henrique Ball Zuloaga, a Venezuelan businessman who is the cousin of Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado.[2][3] In an interview with Radio y Televisión Martí, Ball stated "I have been very involved in Venezuela in public policy. PanAm Post has been more a vocation, something we wanted to do to defend freedom on the continent , rather than a business activity", explaining that the publication is "against socialism".[4]

Following the founding of the PanAm Post, former editor-in-chief Fergus Hodgson explained how the PanAm Post was devoted to keeping up with social change and would be the "front line of new media".[1] Hodgson said that the "bloated and inefficient organizational structures" of legacy media, along with governmental bureaucracies, were disconnected from the changing times.[1] Its current editors-in-chief are the Venezuelan journalist, Orlando Avendaño, and Colombian economist, Vanessa Vallejo.

Demographics

The majority of visitors to the PanAm Post are from the United States, followed by Venezuela, Guatemala, Argentina, and Colombia, in that order.[5] Most visitors are college educated and visit the website at home.[5]

Reception

According to Richard Scheines, dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences of Carnegie Mellon University, PanAm Post is "an incredibly rich online site that covers news and offers excellent analyses of all regions in the Americas".[6][7] In 2019 and 2020, the PanAm Post was ranked in a Forbes article as one of the most prominent free-market magazines in the world measured by social media impact.[8][9]

References
  1. Hodgson, Fergus. "The Hunger for a New Outlet Overcoming the Failure of Government and Legacy Media". PanAm Post. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  2. "People". Atlas Network. 2015-09-07. Archived from the original on 2015-09-07. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  3. "Los casos de corrupción que no investiga PanAm Post". Contexto Diario. 2019-09-08. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  4. "Luis Henrique Ball: El socialismo es el estancamiento en la pobreza". Radio y Televisión Martí (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  5. "panampost.com". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  6. "United States: Carnegie Mellon Trustee and Business Leader Luis Ball To Discuss "Latin America: The Unnoticed Giant South of the Border"". Albawaba. MENA Report. 21 January 2015.
  7. "United States: Carnegie Mellon Trustee and Business Leader Luis Ball To Discuss "Latin America: The Unnoticed Giant South of the Border"". Carnegie Mellon University. January 20, 2015. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  8. Chafuen, Alejandro (April 10, 2019). "The 2019 Ranking Of Free-Market Think Tanks Measured By Social Media Impact". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
  9. Chafuen, Alejandro (March 27, 2020). "The 2020 Ranking Of Free-Market Think Tanks Measured By Social Media Impact". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
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