A new information law (known as the “transparency” law) that took effect in late 2014 does not treat access to information as a fundamental right, exempts certain kinds of government information (such as internal communications) and has created a monitoring entity whose independence is not guaranteed. The economic crisis has hit the media hard and has accentuated the already very marked concentration of ownership. No fewer than 354 media outlets closed and 11,875 journalists lost their jobs from 2008 to 2014.