Notícias
The topography of local news: A new map
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 29/04/2020
Sarah Stonbely and Jesse Holcomb – TOW CENTER
Local journalism has become more important than ever. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, researchers were seeking new ways of seeing the local news landscape amid constant disruption. The Center for Cooperative Media’s News Ecosystem Mapping Project, which maps local news in New Jersey, is a response to this desire to better understand.
Governo adia entrada em vigor da LGPD para 3 de maio de 2021
JOTA – 29/04/2020
ANA POMPEU e VALENTINA TREVOR
O presidente da República, Jair Bolsonaro (sem partido), adiou, por meio de medida provisória, a vigência da Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados, a LGPD. A Lei nº 13.709, de 14 de agosto de 2018, entra em vigor em 3 de maio de 2021, daqui a um ano.
Excelência na cobertura do Coronavírus resulta em recordes históricos para o UOL
Desde o início da pandemia da Covid-19, toda a equipe do UOL, maior empresa brasileira de conteúdo, tecnologia e serviços digitais, vem trabalhando incansavelmente para levar ao público uma cobertura completa sobre tudo o que acontece no Brasil e no mundo, além de criar conteúdo de entretenimento, educação e outras informações essenciais para ajudar a população nesse momento.
Sete em cada dez norte-americanos dizem que precisam dar uma pausa nas notícias sobre COVID-19
Após o rápido crescimento no interesse dos norte-americanos por informações sobre a pandemia de COVID-19, comportamento que elevou as taxas de audiências dos sites de notícias dos Estados Unidos na virada de fevereiro para março, os norte-americanos começam agora a revelar cansaço em relação ao tema. Nova pesquisa do Pew Research Center revela que cerca de sete em cada dez entrevistados (71%) dizem que precisam dar uma pausa nas notícias sobre a crise de saúde, enquanto 43% afirmam que as notícias os deixam se sentindo pior emocionalmente.
‘Get while the getting’s good’: Publishers look to cheap Facebook ads to increase subscriptions
DIGIDAY – 29/04/2020
MAX WILLENS
Over the past seven weeks, many publishers have welcomed a coronavirus bump in subscribers as news consumption rises. That bump has been helped along by a significant acceleration in Facebook ad spending.
For example, subscriber growth across Condé Nast’s portfolio is up 100% from the start of March compared to the same period year over year. And 50% of the new subscriptions its titles have accumulated are coming from paid efforts, a spokesperson said.
Two hedge funds have offered to buy McClatchy. A sale could follow in the next two months — but there are hurdles.
POYNTER – 28/04/2020
Rick Edmonds
A hearing scheduled for Wednesday will address federal pension protections, a supplemental pension plan for executives and pandemic losses.
10 charts about America’s newsrooms
PEW RESEARCH CENTER – 28/04/2020
ELIZABETH GRIECO
America’s newsrooms are changing in important ways. Mergers, closures and layoffs have affected a variety of media organizations – especially newspapers – and these trends are changing the nation’s media landscape.
Here are 10 charts on the state of newsroom employment in the United States today, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau and other sources.
Protecting press freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic
PARLAMENTO EUROPEU – 29/04/2020
The Covid-19 crisis has hit the media sector hard at a time when it plays a crucial role in providing accurate information and countering disinformation about the pandemic.
In a cosmic irony, it’s the big chain-owned newspapers that can’t seem to get any help from the government
NIEMAN LAB – 28/04/2020
JOSHUA BENTON
The momentum in the newspaper industry is all towards consolidation, chains merging into megachains. But it’s their very size that hurts them when seeking federal stimulus dollars.
Trump has played the media like a puppet. We’re getting better — but history will not judge us kindly.
THE WASHINGTON POST – 28/04/2020
Margaret Sullivan
Traditional journalism is under siege, NBC News chief Andy Lack wrote this week: President Trump continues to “put the bully in bully pulpit,” and the coronavirus crisis has taken a toll.
“But we’re winning,” proclaimed the headline of Lack’s piece published on NBCNews.com, which argues that news organizations, because they are still able to tell citizens the truth of what’s going on in the country, are victorious.
I wish I could agree.