Notícias

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 15/04/2020

Jon Allsop

YESTERDAY, JOSH ROGIN, of the Washington Post, published a column that appeared in the paper’s Global Opinions section, but contained bombshell new reporting. Per Rogin, in early 2018, officials from the US Embassy in Beijing repeatedly visited a laboratory in Wuhan where researchers were studying coronaviruses in bats, and their possible transmissibility to humans. Embassy staff were so concerned about safety issues they said they’d observed on their visits that they sent two warnings back to the State Department, urging the US government to give the lab support. In the first of the cables, which Rogin obtained, officials warned that the lab’s work on coronaviruses “represented a risk of a new SARS-like pandemic.”

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 15/04/2020

Akintunde Ahmad

FOR SPORTS FANS LIKE MYSELF, the absence of March Madness, combined with the loss of professional basketball and baseball seasons, has left a void. Who will be crowned the winner of our fantasy leagues? Will I get a refund on my NBA tickets? What conflicts will I have left to follow within the relatively safe confines of the sports media world?

THE GUARDIAN – 15/04/2020

Jim Waterson

Announcement by parent company comes as revenues fall across the industry.

THE WASHINGTON POST – 15/04/2020

Erik Wemple

March saw a surge in people on social media wishing that lawsuits would resolve the problem of Fox News. A fairly representative example:

THE NEW YORK TIMES – 15/04/2020

Brian X. Chen

A computer with a good internet connection, communication apps and entertainment are the only tech we really need, ever.

THE NEW YORK TIMES – 15/04/2020

Marc Tracy

Assignments have dried up for many photographers. Others risk going into the fray to capture images of a changed world.

THE NEW YORK TIMES – 15/04/2020

Taylor Lorenz

The coronavirus pandemic has driven interest in uplifting headlines way, way up.

THE GUARDIAN – 14/04/2020

Amanda Meade

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a spike in traffic to news websites, with Guardian Australia experiencing the biggest surge in the Australian market

TECHCRUNCH – 14/04/2020

Anthony Ha

Stanford University’s  Big Local News and Pitch Interactive projects, along with the Google  News Initiative, are launching a new tool today that allows local journalists to embed customized, up-to-date maps of COVID-19 cases in the United States.

GOOGLE – 15/04/2020

Google has launched a global Journalism Emergency Relief Fund through the Google News Initiative to support small and medium-sized news organizations producing original news for local communities – please see eligibility requirements below. The Fund’s aim is to support the production of original journalism for local communities in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Operating globally, it will provide an easily-accessible route to financial assistance at this critical time.