Notícias

COVID-19 survey shows how newspapers are transitioning business models, reducing costs

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPERS – 08/04/2020

The coronavirus crisis has forced publishers to move rapidly to reduce print-related costs and transition their business models to more digitally-dependent news and information platforms.
That’s one of the clearest conclusions from the results of a Cribb, Greene & Cope Coronavirus Survey of newspaper owners and publishers released today. Seventy-six newspaper executives from across the country participated in the survey.

Media jobs plummet at Vox, Vice, and Buzzfeed in the midst of Coronavirus

THINKNUM  – 13/04/2020

Julia Gray

Media jobs are infamously precarious, with seeming seasons of unexpected rounds of layoffs and company “restructuring.” Last December, Maya Kosoff reported on “The Human Toll of the 2019 Media Apocalypse” for Medium, as more than 3,000 journalists lost their jobs. Now, with millions of jobs lost to the Coronavirus crisis, the media industry is barely hanging on.

The coronavirus crisis will eventually end, but the distributed newsroom is here to stay

NIEMAN LAB – 13/04/2020

TOM TREWINNARD 

The newsrooms that will thrive in a post-COVID-19 world will be the ones that embrace the shift to distributed teams. Here’s a guide how.
Over the past few weeks, social distancing policies and travel restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19 came into force in countries across the globe, impacting billions — journalists included. Almost overnight, news publishers had to find a new way of functioning that didn’t revolve around physical newsrooms. To add to the pressure, many newsrooms are simultaneously facing an existential financial crisis of lost advertising revenue and subscription revenue at risk from a global recession, resulting in layoffs, furloughs, pay cuts, and closures at an unprecedented rate.

Types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation

REUTERS INSTITUTE – 07/04/2020

Dr. J. Scott Brennen
Felix Simon
Dr Philip N. Howard
Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Tuesday 7 April 2020In this factsheet we identify some of the main types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation seen so far. We analyse a sample of 225 pieces of misinformation rated false or misleading by fact-checkers and published in English between January and the end of March 2020, drawn from a collection of fact-checks maintained by First Draft.

We find that:

Veículos vão além das notícias e usam influência para ajudar na crise

PROPMARK  13/04/2020

Leonardo Araujo

A crise do novo coronavírus pode fortalecer a atividade jornalística. Segundo o estudo Kantar Barometer, a busca do público pela atividade é tão alta que 11 das 20 maiores audiências televisivas dos últimos cinco anos foram registradas durante a crise da Covid-19. O estudo também aponta que 79% da audiência considera a TV o meio mais confiável para se obter informações sobre o novo coronavírus. Nas redes sociais, segundo o mesmo estudo, o gênero jornalismo é o que mais pauta conversas, perdendo apenas para reality shows, algo compreensível em tempos de BBB.

Liberdade de expressão e redes sociais virtuais

CONJUR  12/04/2020

João Victor Rozatti Longhi e Guilherme Magalhães Martins

Nos últimos dias, temos acompanhado as notícias da pandemia global da Covid-19, o conhecido coronavírus, Trata-se de uma situação excepcional, cujas repercussões sociais e econômicas, bem como a restrição à liberdade, inclusive a contratual e a da propriedade individual, não encontram paralelo na história brasileira recente.