Notícias

PRESS GAZETTE – 06/04/2020

Charlotte Tobitt

The Government has called for social media companies to do more to clamp down on “crackpot theories” that have seen 5G phone masts set alight and telecoms workers attacked over the past week.
False claims have circulated online that 5G technology has helped transmit coronavirus (Covid-19), apparently resulting in attacks on at least 20 mobile phone masts (pictured) in the UK in the past five days.

THE GUARDIAN – 06/04/2020

Art Cullen

“We have been able to hang on by our ink-stained fingernails,” writes Art Cullen, editor of Iowa’s Storm Lake Times.

THE GUARDIAN – 05/04/2020

Emily Bell

In the UK and US, coronavirus has put practices such as anonymous briefings in the spotlight.

INMA – 05/04/2020

Jens Pettersson

This is a story about greed, strategies, and, most of all, survival. It’s a story that began four years ago. By now, the “Trump bump” is a well-known expression in the fast-developing business known as economics of journalism. Back in 2016, U.S. newspapers like The Washington Post and The New York Times saw a huge increase in subscription numbers soon after President Trump was sworn in. That is now part of modern newspaper history and well known to readers like yourself.

DIGIDAY – 06/04/2020

LUCINDA SOUTHERN

For media companies, last week was characterized by layoffs, salary cuts and print closures. But it’s also the week publishers started seeing campaigns coming back in China.
Bloomberg CEO Justin Smith said it’s seeing Asia open up again and the beginnings of more activity happening there. One major international news brand is expecting to sign three contracts last week from three of the biggest countries in China and the immediate area (one has already been signed). Another major international news publisher said a campaign from Hong Kong that was on pause has been restarted.

YHE NEW YORK TIMES – 05/04/2020

CNN once prevented Chris Cuomo from interviewing his brother on the air. But that all changed with the arrival of the coronavirus, and now it’s changing television, too.

INMA – 05/04/2020

Madhavi Sekhri

The world’s most comprehensive lockdown, effectively confining 1.3 billion Indians to their homes for 21 days, has necessitated numerous adjustments in every way of life, including the business of news.
Earmarked as an “essential service” and therefore given certain exemptions to an otherwise unfettered restriction on movement, Indian media has been tasked with the responsibility of ensuring credible and verified information reaches the entire population, rather than unsubstantiated “fake news” that has the potential to trigger panic and provide incorrect hygiene and social distancing information. The Indian media has risen to the challenge despite serious hits to advertising revenue and several logistical blockages that such a massive lockdown exercise inadvertently creates. The numerous adjustments, like elsewhere in the world, include:

THE WASHINGTON POST – 05/04/2020

Louisa Loveluck, Robyn Dixon and Adam Taylor

When a flu-like virus tore through the world, killing tens of millions and infecting far more, the papers in Europe told readers of “Spanish flu.” King Alfonso XIII of Spain was one of many stricken, they reported in 1918. What they didn’t say was that their own populations were being decimated, too.

EMARKETER – 30/03/2020

Matteo Ceurvels 

Latin America and the Caribbean account for 2.6% of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University (roughly 33,000 people as of April 5, data updated hourly), but businesses and consumers have already started feeling the impact of the virus as governments attempt to contain the pandemic and mitigate potential economic downturns. Here’s what you need to know.

THE NEW YORK TIMES – 03/04/2020

Tiffany Hsu

Blank billboards and canceled online ads signal an industry in crisis as the coronavirus spreads. “There are things happening that we’ve never seen before,” one marketing executive said.