Notícias

NPR Chief Warns of Steep Cost Cuts Amid Coronavirus Pandemc

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – 17/04/2020

Benjamin Mullin

National Public Radio is planning significant cost cuts as the coronavirus pandemic hits sponsorship and donation revenue, the public broadcaster’s chief executive, John Lansing, said in a memo to staff. 
NPR is facing a budget deficit of between $30 million and $45 million through its 2021 fiscal year, Mr. Lansing said in the Wednesday memo.

Key Quotes: The Stark Contrast in Reporting Epidemics in South Africa with Journalist Mia Malan

IJNET – 17/04/2020

SHERRY RICCHIARDI

South Africa provides a stark comparison of the government’s reaction to two deadly epidemics — HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, Mia Malan, a veteran journalist who covered both outbreaks, said in an ICFJ webinar on Thursday.
In the case of HIV, government officials had an extremely hostile relationship with the news media, she said. Access to health department information was virtually nonexistent.

In the battered news industry, are nonprofits best equipped to survive?

DIGITAL CONTENT NEXT – 16/04/2020

Kasia Kovacs 

Over the past decade, the nonprofit news model has offered some hope while traditional news outlets struggled to keep afloat. Without the need to rely on advertisers and instead making money through fundraising and memberships, nonprofit news outlets have proliferated.

Government launches public information campaign across regional press

HOLD THE FRONT PAGE – 17/04/2020

David Sharman 

The regional and national press have launched a three-month advertising partnership with the government by running the same cover wrap across hundreds of titles.
The ‘All in, all together’ public information campaign idea has been developed by the newspaper industry and supported by the Society of Editors.