Notícias

AMA JOURNAL OF ETHICS – 20/04/2020

Katherina Thomas and Alpha Daffae Senkpeni

Journalists have long covered outbreaks of infectious disease. In the history of global health journalism—from the 1721 Boston smallpox epidemic to the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak in China and Singapore and to recent outbreaks of Ebola in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—newsrooms have wielded their power both responsibly and irresponsibly. This article examines journalism practice during the 2013-2016 Ebola epidemic and recommends strategies for improving epidemic reporting.

NCBI – ABRIL/2020

Mass media plays a central role in people’s lives. Its importance is evident in the amount of time people spend watching television, surfing the World Wide Web, listening to music, and reading newspapers and magazines. The delivery of information through mass media is instant and available around the clock. The proliferation of communication technologies— miniature TVs, handheld radios, and personal computer companions such as Blackberry and Palm Pilot—contribute to the omnipresence of the media in daily life. More and more, a growing proportion of “life experience” is mediated through communication technologies instead of being directly experienced or witnessed. The public health community and policy makers often do not appreciate the importance and power of the media in shaping the health of the public. More importantly, media outlets or organizations do not see themselves as a part of, or contributing to the public health system. As this chapter discusses, however, the media plays a number of roles in educating the public about health issues and has a responsibility to report accurate health and science information to the public.

VOX – 13/04/2020

Peter Kafka

And can we do better?
The coronavirus pandemic has crippled America. So far, the virus has killed more than 20,000 people in the United States and has sickened more than 500,000 people. It’s clear now that the US government was woefully unprepared for the pandemic, and that’s been reflected in its messaging to the public since the start.

THE WASHINGTON POST – 19/04/2020

Tony Romm

A trio of far-right, pro-gun provocateurs is behind some of the largest Facebook groups calling for anti-quarantine protests around the country, offering the latest illustration that some seemingly organic demonstrations are being engineered by a network of conservative activists.

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 20/04/2020

Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC is a tragic reminder of just how essential fact-based, outspoken journalism is, especially in times of crisis.  Without it, people die.  In China, the lack of an independent press made it easier for the government to hide the danger of the virus, putting many more people, especially health care workers, at risk. In the United States, Donald Trump likewise downplayed the threat, calling it a “hoax,” but faced pushback from much of the media.  By highlighting what science and medical experts say, rather than the fake controversies around it, such reporting is helping to push the US death toll lower than it otherwise would be.

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 20/04/2020

Mathew Ingram

It’s hard to imagine an industry more poorly prepared for the arrival of a global pandemic than the media business. Even before “coronavirus” became a household word, the industry was already reeling from a series of body blows, most of them delivered by Google and Facebook and their dominance of the advertising market. Since 2008, nearly half of US newspaper journalism jobs have disappeared, according to the LA Times, leaving fewer than 38,000 reporters, photographers, and editors. Waves of layoffs have become the norm, not just for large chains like Gannett and McClatchy but for smaller papers, and even for digital giants like BuzzFeed and Vox, who at one time were seen as the future of online media. Then along came COVID-19, and with it the unprecedented shutdown of entire cities, and the erasure of huge swaths of the advertising business. For many outlets, it will likely become what media analyst Ken Doctor calls “an extinction event.” For some it already is.

DIGIDAY – 20/04/2020

KAYLEIGH BARBER

Six weeks ago, when SXSW was canceled, Politico’s chief product officer Aaron Kissel recognized that the company’s own pipeline of custom and signature events would also have to be either reimagined as virtual events or delayed indefinitely.

IN PUBLISHING -17/04/2020

Welsh members of the Independent Community News Network have been awarded emergency grant revenue funding of £8,500 by the Welsh Government in a bid to help sustain them over the coming months.

DIGIDAY – 20/04/2020

LARA O’REILLY

At a time when some advertisers are hitting pause on spending and others are avoiding appearing next to coronavirus articles — or even just “bad news” — the U.K. government is rapidly ascending the rankings of U.K. news publishers’ most important clients — and cheerleaders — during the crisis.
The U.K. government has aired a coronavirus public information campaign across print, TV, radio, digital and outdoor since March. The latest iteration of the campaign, which was created by the National Health Service’s ad agency MullenLowe, features frontline health workers and the tagline, “Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save lives.”  Wavemaker is the media agency leading the push.

META-MEDIA – 17/04/2020

Mathilde Floc’h et Laure Delmoly, MediaLab, France Télévisions
Début avril 2020, près de 3,5 milliards de citoyens étaient confinés. Face à cette situation inédite le besoin de s’informer, tant sur les avancées médicales et les mesures officielles en cours que sur la vie en confinement n’a jamais été aussi important.