Notícias

OBSERVACOM – ABRIL/2020

“Los gigantes de la tecnología han reprimido agresivamente la desinformación digital” durante el COVID19 “y han ofrecido a los contratistas permisos remunerados”. Al hacerlo, dice Mark Scott en @Politico, “pueden haber dado a los reguladores una bala de plata” (Silicon Valley is going all out to fight coronavirus. That’s a risky move).
El análisis de este artículo plantea los riesgos del antecedente que marca el agresivo comportamiento de las grandes plataformas removiendo información “errónea” o informes y remedios “falsos” como parte de los esfuerzos para ayudar a combatir el COVID-19.

LABORATORIO DE PERIODISMO – 24/04/2020

El periodismo freelance, entendido no sólo desde un punto de vista laboral, sino también de posibilidades de trabajar para distintos medios sin pertenecer a ninguno, no tiene en España probablemente el peso que pueda tener en algunos otros países como Estados Unidos. En muchas ocasiones, ser periodista freelance en España ha sido sinónimo de “romper la mano”, de dar los primeros pasos entregando trabajos a unos y a otros hasta hacerse un hueco en un periódico u otro medio de comunicación a tiempo completo.

DIRCOMFIDENCIAL – 24/04/2020

La inversión publicitaria el mes pasado en España apenas llegó a los 270 millones de euros. Es un 27% menos que hace un año, según Infoadex.

TECHCRUNCH – 23/04/2020

Josh Constine

Leaked images obtained by TechCrunch reveal that Google  considered and designed a feature that would let people donate money to websites to help support news publishers, bloggers and musicians. But Google scrapped the idea and chose not to build out the product, despite these kinds of businesses and creators often struggling to earn revenue.

AXIOS – 23/04/2020

Scott Rosenberg

The rapid trajectory of videoconferencing service Zoom has entered a new phase: What started as a social lifeline during the pandemic, and then became an object of privacy and security concerns, has now become a grind.
Why it matters: Zoom is wearing a lot of us down, and as our era of enforced online work and socializing drags on, we’re all going to have to learn how to better conserve our physical and psychological energy.

AXIOS – 24/04/2020

Sara Fischer

While usage of most mobile apps has remained neutral during the coronavirus pandemic, social media app usage has exploded during the lockdown, according to new data from Nielsen.
Why it matters: Prior to the pandemic, consumers and tech companies were both becoming more aware of the overuse of social media and actively trying to limit it. In a time when people can’t connect with friends and family in person, companies have put these efforts on pause.

BETTER NEWS – ABRIL/2020

Michael Kilian, Cynthia Benjamin and Len LaCara

Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: The Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, N.Y., is attracting new readers in the area’s nine most diverse ZIP codes by transforming its storytelling and moving its engagement into long-overlooked neighborhoods.

NIEMAN LAB – 23/04/2020

HANAA’ TAMEEZ 

“We used to say trustworthy information is important to democracy. And now we should say trustworthy local information is a matter of life and death.”
It’s one thing to report on a community from your kitchen table or living room couch when you already know it well. You know the people to keep in touch with, the sources to call, the players to watch; you have the context of having reported dozens or hundreds of previous stories there. It’s tough, but doable.

THE MARKUP – 23/04/2020

Aaron Sankin

While vowing to police COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, Facebook let advertisers target users interested in“pseudoscience”

CNBC – 23/04/2020

Megan Graham

Google will soon require all advertisers to verify their identity, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. It’s making the change to prevent advertisers from misrepresenting themselves and says it should allow consumers to see who’s running ads and which country they’re located in.