Notícias

WIRED – 01/04/2020

LILY HAY NEWMAN

A class action lawsuit. Rampant zoombombing. And as of today, two new zero-day vulnerabilities.

THE NEW YORK TIMES – 30/03/2020

Stat, started in 2015 by the Red Sox owner John Henry, is drawing four to five times its normal audience. “We were built for this,” one of its editors said.

WIRED – 01/04/2020

STEVEN LEVY
FACEBOOK ANNOUNCED ON Monday that it was going to spend $100 million to help local news outlets during the coronavirus crisis. “It’s a moment where getting accurate news about the coronavirus is vital for all us,” says Campbell Brown, the former television news anchor and Facebook’s vice president of global news partnerships. This urgent need for news comes as ad revenues for news sites are drying up. “Local journalists are being hit especially hard, even as people turn to them for critical information to keep their friends, families and communities safe,” Campbell wrote in a blog post announcing the grant. As if to put an exclamation point on that notion, also on Monday, the Gannett newspaper chain told employees at 100 newspapers that they would have to take unpaid leave.

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY – 01/04/2020

Danielle Clements and Lorraine Joyce

Interview at Prudential As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to progress worldwide, many are trying to better understand how the virus is affecting everyday life. Seton Hall University’s Professional-in-Residence B.J. Schecter is a veteran journalist who spent the last 20 years at Sports Illustrated and most recently served as executive editor of SI and SI.com. Branden Buehler, assistant professor of visual and sound media, teaches both general media studies courses and sports media courses within the Visual and Sound Media program, including classes such as “Sports, Media, and Culture,” “The Future of Sports Media,” and “Sports and Film.”

DIGIDAY – 01/04/2020

SEB JOSEPH

Facebook Live became a symbol of publishers blindly following platforms after they lemming-like rushed to create live video operations in 2016, only to see no money arrive from those efforts.
But now, live-streaming is more popular than ever as people around the world stay at home to flatten the pandemic’s infection curve. And while this lockdown has killed in-person events, it has also breathed new life into virtual ones via services like Facebook Live.

JOURNALISM – 01/04/2020

Daniel Green

Soaring appetite for covid-19 coverage has boosted public service news but readers may soon start to turn away from constant negativity. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen explains how to avoid reaching the saturation point

THE GUARDIAN – 01/04/2020

Mark Sweney and Simon Goodley

Moves may breach employment law as it is understood staff were not aware beforehand

NIEMAN LAB – 31/04/2020

KEN DOCTOR 

By gutting local advertising overnight, COVID-19 has accelerated strategies — like cutting print days, corporate consolidation, or even closing down offices — that publishers had hoped could wait a while longer.

REYNOLDS JOURNALISM INSTITUTE – 31/03/2020

PETE PACHAL 

If service journalism has a time to shine, it’s during a crisis. When things are going wrong, people need good, specific information to deal with the situation, they need to know that the information is trustworthy, and they need it fast — being able to make decisions quickly is fundamental to crisis management.
As COVID-19 spreads around the globe, almost all news organizations have stepped up their output of service journalism. That was inevitable: It’s no exaggeration to say the coronavirus and the world’s response to it is affecting the lives of every person on the planet, and the essence of service journalism is to provide practical advice to make life more manageable, and in the midst of this pandemic that advice is more essential than ever.

DIGIDAY – 31/03/2020

LUCINDA SOUTHERN

There’s an insatiable appetite for accurate news and information during the coronavirus pandemic. Publishers’ high traffic peaks are translating to subscriptions.  
Compared to the first two weeks of the month, Nordic publisher Schibsted has sold twice as many daily subscriptions to its multiple different news brands across Sweden and Norway, a trend for the last two weeks. But the coming months will bring tightening economic pressures, a rise in unemployment plus the initial adrenaline rush of the news cycle will wear off. As it sells monthly, three-monthly and annual subscriptions, it’s too soon for any concrete data on whether these new readers will prove to be long-term advocates. Even so, Schibsted is preparing for the impact on retention.