Notícias
Tech Platforms Urged To Crack Down On COVID-19 Related Price Gouging
MEDIA POST – 25/03/2020
Wendy Davis
Tech companies should create and enforce policies aimed at preventing price-gouging of products related to COVID-19, a group of state attorneys general say. “We believe you have an ethical obligation and duty to help your fellow citizens in this time of need by doing everything in your power to stop price gouging in real-time,” the officials, led by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shaprio, say in letters sent Wednesday to Amazon, Walmart, Craigslist, Facebook and eBay. The letters cite several examples of price-gouging uncovered by reporters, including a 2-liter bottle of hand sanitizer being sold on Craigslist for $250, and an 8-ounce bottle being sold on Facebook for $40.
US reporters use SMS to reach local audiences with coronavirus coverage
JOURNALISM – 25/03/2020
Daniel Green
Subtext, a service that allows readers to receive texts directly from local reporters, has seen its subscriber numbers triple in five days as the public seeks relevant covid-19 updates
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.
Abap ressalta papel essencial da publicidade durante a crise
PROPMARK – 25/03/2020
A Associação Brasileira de Agências de Publicidade (Abap) divulgou um comunicado nesta quarta-feira (25) ressaltando o papel fundamental da publicidade neste momento de “crise mundial da saúde”.
Journalists assaulted by police amid coronavirus lockdown in India
COMITÊ PARA A PROTEÇÃO DOS JORNALISTAS – 24/03/2020
New Delhi, March 24, 2020 – Authorities in India must stop assaulting journalists and allow them to do their work freely and without restrictions, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
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.
We know coronavirus has wrecked the events business for media in 2020. But will it come back post-virus?
NIEMAN LAB – 25/03/2020
Joshua Benton
O’Reilly Media, long known for its successful conferences, has decided that it’s getting out of the business — no matter how quickly civilization gets past COVID-19. Will events revenue bounce back quickly in a few months or be lost under a mountain of Zoom calls?
UK towns lose local newspapers as impact of coronavirus deepens
THE GUARDIAN – 25/03/2020
Jim Waterson
Many self-isolating older people left without trusted news source as presses stop rolling
Atlantic Canada’s largest newspaper chain temporarily lays off 40% of staff
CBS NEWS – 24/03/2020
Anjuli Patil
All SaltWire weeklies temporarily shutting down amid loss of ads due to COVID-19
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.