Notícias

Statement: Ad Tech Companies: Stop Journalism-Harming Keyword Blocking Practices

NEWS MEDIA ALLIANCE – 03/04/2020

The News Media Alliance and Digital Content Next call on digital advertisers and digital advertising companies to stop using keyword blocking practices that jeopardize the sustainability of high-quality journalism during this critical time. While many advertisers have decreased or ceased their spending on digital advertising altogether due to the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, others are using keywords to block their ads from appearing on COVID-19-related content. Alliance President & CEO David Chavern said, “News organizations are working tirelessly to provide reliable and trustworthy information to their communities; a life-saving service at this unprecedented time. Keyword blocking serves to punish publishers for this very same coverage, with potentially catastrophic effects.”

Does reporting on panic buying fuel panic buying?

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 03/04/2020

Zoë Beery
AS THE CORONAVIRUS SPREADS with unsettling speed across the world, so has press coverage of hoarding. Food. Medical supplies. Toilet paper. Panicked citizens with frustratingly little control over a pandemic are instead seizing upon one thing they can do, which is stock up for what feels like an apocalypse.

CORONAVIRUS : LES MÉDIAS POURSUIVENT LEUR MUE

CBNEWS – 03/04/2020

THOMAS MOYSAN & THIERRY WOJCIAK

Alors que les Français traversent leur troisième semaine de confinement, les médias tentent de ne pas subir et de proposer de nouveaux contenus et de nouvelles offres. Liste non-exhaustive.

What’s next in the publisher response to COVID-19?

INMA – 02/04/2020

Shelley Seale

Publishers are checking a list of their most important considerations right now, which include safety, remote work, the advertising decline, cash flow, and potential cutbacks. Everyone is also wondering when we will get to the “new normal.”

CPJ Safety Advisory: Digital security during the COVID-19 pandemic

COMITÊ PARA A PROTEÇÃO DOS JORNALISTAS – 02/04/2020

The current global health situation has seen changes to the way journalists do their job, with an increasing number working from home instead of an office. This is creating digital security issues for journalists and media outlets who still need to work during the coronavirus outbreak.

7 ways to get your COVID-19 reporting to those who need it

AMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE – 01/04/2020

FIONA MORGAN 

Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Ellie Silverman carries a sign with her contact information as she walks down a line of cars waiting at a COVID-19 testing site. (Photo credit: Tim Tai)
Many media organizations are dropping their paywalls to make reporting on the coronavirus pandemic accessible to all. Maybe that’s you — if so, thank you! The public has never needed accurate, timely, fact-checked information more than it does right now.

Local newspapers are facing their own coronavirus crisis

AP – 03/04/2020

TALI ARBEL and DAVID BAUDER

Just when Americans need it most, a U.S. newspaper industry already under stress is facing an unprecedented new challenge. Readers desperate for information are more reliant than ever on local media as the coronavirus spreads across the U.S. They want to know about cases in their area, where testing centers are, what the economic impact is. Papers say online traffic and subscriptions have risen — the latter even when they’ve lowered paywalls for pandemic-related stories. But newspapers and other publications are under pressure as advertising craters. They are cutting jobs, staff hours and pay, dropping print editions — and in some cases shutting down entirely.