''The Nicaragua Dispatch'' is an independent online English-language news website based in Granada,

Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...

. Launched on October 17, 2011, by U.S. journalist Tim Rogers, the online newspaper identifies itself as a "community publication for the digitalized, global era" by including reader-submitted blogs and opinion pieces. In its first year of publication, ''The Nicaragua Dispatch'' signed a syndication and electronic distribution agreement with ''

The Christian Science Monitor ''The Christian Science Monitor'' (''CSM''), commonly known as ''The Monitor'', is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles in electronic format as well as a weekly print edition. It was founded in 1908 as a daily newspaper ...

'', both of which reprinted its articles. In a 2011 interview ''The Tico Times'' called Rogers "a journalist's journalist" whose stories from Nicaragua "run the gamut from exclusive interviews with Nicaragua's rich and powerful insiders to features on poor Nicaraguan kids pursuing dreams on a dusty baseball field." In 2012, Nicaraguan Spanish-language daily ''Confidencial'' said ''The Nicaragua Dispatch'' is filling a need to provide English-language news to readers inside and outside of the country as well as "guarantee access to information" for all foreigners interested in Nicaragua.Confidencial - Nuevos medios en Internet
/ref> Although the website signed off briefly in July 2013, it resumed publishing on a more limited basis two months later.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nicaragua Dispatch Daily newspapers published in Nicaragua Nicaraguan news websites Newspapers established in 2011 2011 establishments in Nicaragua Granada, Nicaragua