Notícias

RSF claims press freedom in China could have helped avoid Covid-19 pandemic

THE NEW YORK TIMES – 25/03/2020

Freddy Mayhew

The coronavirus pandemic might have been avoided and thousands of lives saved if China had a free press, according to a prominent campaign group.
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres) has used evidence from various studies and reviewed events in the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan during December and January to make its case.

Las autoridades venezolanas arrestan y amenazan a periodistas que informan sobre el COVID-19

COMITÊ PARA A PROTEÇÃO DOS JORNALISTAS – 23/03/2020

El 13 de marzo de 2020, agentes de la Policía de la ciudad de Los Teques arrestaron a Jesús Enrique Torres y a Jesús Manuel Castillo, presentadores de un programa noticioso de la radioemisora privada La Cima, después de que colocaron un video en Facebook, donde a veces publican sus informaciones, sobre presuntos casos del coronavirus en un hospital local, según informaciones de prensa.

What comes next: Lessons from Italy

DIGIDAY – 25/03/2020

Lara O’Reilly
Having overtaken China as the epicenter for the coronavirus pandemic, Italy will serve as the canary in the coal mine for how other western media and advertising markets may fare as the crisis escalates worldwide.
Unsurprisingly, advertising executives said media consumption there — TV, social media, gaming — has spiked as the people of Italy roll into their fourth week of lockdown. The ad dollars, however, have not followed those eyeballs, as the overall Italian economy is being strangled.