Notícias

Facebook investe US$ 2 milhões para apoiar veículos de notícias na América Latina durante o COVID-19

FACEBOOK – 29/04/2020

Claudia Gurfinkel – Diretora de Parcerias de Notícias do Facebook para a América Latina

O Projeto Facebook para Jornalismo (FJP) anuncia hoje uma parceria com o Centro Internacional para Jornalistas (ICFJ, em inglês), uma organização sem fins lucrativos focada em promover o jornalismo de qualidade em todo o mundo, para lançar um fundo de US$2 milhões que ajudará organizações de notícias na América Latina durante a crise do COVID-19.

The road to making small-town news more inclusive

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 28/04/2020

Letrell Deshan Crittenden and Andrea Wenzel – TOW CENTER

Huddled around a small, makeshift table in the local library, a group of African American women lamented problems affecting their community. Various challenges were making it difficult for black students to get a solid education in their school district. Kids lacked organized activities, which the women believed was fueling an opiate use epidemic. And people  didn’t have enough information about how to get Medicare benefits.
These issues, however, were rarely  discussed by local media. The women struggled to remember when they had been interviewed by journalists. One, a business owner, had never been the subject of a profile, despite its long tenure in the community. These women felt local media had little concern about what was happening within the African American community. They felt invisible. “Nobody knows what we’re thinking, because no one is asking us. No one cares how we feel,” one said.

Axios returns PPP loan

AXIOS – 29/04/2020

Jim VandeHei

Axios, which qualified for a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan to avoid layoffs, will return the money, after nearing a deal for an alternative source of capital.
Why it matters: In the four weeks since Axios applied for the loan, based on big coronavirus business losses, there has been a public backlash against a variety of companies for taking the PPP, including us.

Axios returns coronavirus bailout loan as news organizations grapple with the ethics of taking government funds

THE WASHINGTON POST – 29/04/2020

Paul Farhi

The news site Axios has been a digital-media start-up star, generating impressive traffic, a popular live-events business and an HBO spinoff show in just its first three years. Covering politics and business from Washington, it launched with $20 million in backing from high-profile investors, including NBC Universal, former Disney mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and Apple heir Laurene Powell Jobs.