Notícias

DIGIDAY – 07/05/2020

SEB JOSEPH

When Bouke de Vries stepped back into the Digital Decisions office in Amsterdam last week, it had been two months after the media consultancy shut its doors. He found his desk is flanked by plexiglass divider screens like every other in the office. Before the office shut, there were 20 people dotted across the open floor plan whereas now most of that space is blocked off to keep the five who are allowed back in as far apart as possible. At the beginning of the day, the first person to arrives and fixes all doors to stay open — that person then disinfects their hands after doing so. De Vries had returned to an office in Amsterdam that appeared much the same to the one he left in March, but was, in many ways, different.

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW – 08/05/2020

Satchit Balsari , Caroline Buckee and Tarun Khanna

The Covid-19 pandemic has created a tidal wave of data. As countries and cities struggle to grab hold of the scope and scale of the problem, tech corporations and data aggregators have stepped up, filling the gap with dashboards scoring social distancing based on location data from mobile phone apps and cell towers, contact-tracing apps using geolocation services and Bluetooth, and modeling efforts to predict epidemic burden and hospital needs. In the face of uncertainty, these data can provide comfort — tangible facts in the face of many unknowns.

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

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

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

POYNTER – 08/05/2020

Peter Clark

Journalists — and experts from science, business and government — are using explanatory journalism to communicate in the public interest

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.  

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?

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.

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.”