Notícias
Fact-checking ‘Plandemic,’ a documentary full of false conspiracy theories about the coronavirus
POYNTER – 08/05/2020
Alex Mahadevan
Before platforms removed it, a 26-minute video called “Plandemic: The Hidden Agenda Behind Covid-19” was viewed tens of millions of times. It’s full o
4 Ways to Fund — and Save — Local Journalism
NIEMAN REPORTS – 07/05/2020
Catherine Buni
COVID-19 is threatening to extinguish local media — and fueling bold proposals to fund its long-term future
Rupert Murdoch gives up his bonus as News Corp loses US$1bn in three months
THE GUARDIAN – 08/05/2020
Ben Butler
Huge losses driven partly by fall in valuation of Australian pay TV service Foxtel and decline in news advertising revenue
Explanatory journalism is entering a golden age in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic
POYNTER – 08/05/2020
Peter Clark
Journalists — and experts from science, business and government — are using explanatory journalism to communicate in the public interest
Pushed out of Egypt for COVID-19 reporting
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 07/05/2020
Ruth Michaelson
THE WARNING that I would be expelled from Egypt began with a few simple words. “They just want to see your visa,” a British embassy official told me on March 18, passing on a message from Egyptian security officials at the country’s visa and immigration office. I knew what that meant: Other journalists had been called to the same authority to have their visas revoked. Later that day, the British official called me again as I sheltered in a hotel room, after a lawyer advised me to flee my apartment in case it was raided by police. The security services had spoken to the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which had passed a second message to the British embassy. “They’re asking you to leave,” he said.
“I Feel Like This Is End Times”: Will the Coronavirus Crisis Finally Crush New York’s Tabloids?
VANITY FAIR – 07/05/2020
JOE POMPEO
The Post and the News, crucial pillars of the city’s mindset, are reeling, with little hope in sight. Could Rupert Murdoch sell the Post?
In Canada, a government program to support local news tries to determine who’s most deserving
NIEMAN LAB – 08/05/2020
SARAH SCIRE
The country’s $50 million Local Journalism Initiative is funding more than 160 reporting positions across the country. But critics say that it’s subsidizing old media at the expense of new models.
COVID-Explained aims to translate hard science into clear answers to common questions
NIEMAN LAB – 07/05/2020
LAURA HAZARD OWEN
“I’m getting great information from professional immunologists and virologists, but I had the sense that they were having a hard time communicating the details of the science to a broader audience. That’s something I do a lot of.”
The global pandemic has definitely not bridged the U.S. partisan divide on journalism
NIEMAN LAB – 08/05/2020
HANAA’ TAMEEZ
If working from home, being bombarded with coronavirus updates, lacking a boundary between work time and leisure time, and having to feed yourself and/or occupy your kids hasn’t exhausted every bone in your body yet, I’ve got something that will.
Medios de comunicación y empresas ponen en marcha secciones específicas de noticias positivas
LABORATORIO DE PERIODISMO – 08/05/2020
La dureza de muchas de las situaciones que se han vivido con el coronavirus ha causado al final cierto cansancio psicológico, que se ha traducido en un incremento en la búsqueda de noticias positivas en los medios de comunicación.