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Journalism for children in Brazil: the challenge of explaining the world and creating new readers

Children reading newspaper journalism Brazil

Rio de Janeiro – During the covid-19 pandemic, the management of Brazilian newspaper Diário do Grande ABC stopped publishing the supplement Diarinho, which is made for children, in order to reduce costs at a difficult time in light of the health crisis. This decision had to be reversed the following week. “On the Sunday the … Leia mais

In Latin America, journalists discuss best practices for covering the Amazon

Latin America Journalists on Covering the Amazon

The Amazon is the epicenter of climate change and therefore must be covered by journalists with a lot of preparation, including local voices, from approaches beyond the environmental, such as human rights, economics and politics, and with caution not to fall into the trap of misinformation. These were some of the main lessons learned from … Leia mais

Latin American media seek to influence public debate and engage audience by translating its journalism into English

Although more than 500 million people in the world speak Spanish, English is the global communication language par excellence in the areas of entertainment, information and business. In recent years, various digital media in Latin America, from Mexico to Chile, have decided to translate and create content in English as a way to reach new … Leia mais

Harassment against journalists in Latin America: fines, terrorism and ‘bullying saturdays’

By  Júlio Lubianco  Government harassment of journalists has become a trend in Latin American countries, with leaders often using the strength of state institutions, such as the judiciary and police, to discredit and even silence the press. There is also the creation and financing of official outlets led by government allies in which the only narrative … Leia mais

Eight journalistic expressions in English, Portuguese and Spanish that journalists should know

By  Júlio Lubianco|Latam Journalism Review Republished under license from the Knight Center for Journalism for the Americas LatAm Journalism Review (LJR) is a trilingual digital magazine. All the articles are published in three languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese. Every week, me and Marina Estarque translate texts from Paola Nalvarte and Silvia Higuera into Portuguese, and they translate our … Leia mais

Brazil among three countries without a single non-white top editor across leading news brands

On UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism/ University of Oxford has published new research looking at the proportion of news editors that are non-white across 100 leading online and offline news brands in five countries (UK, US, Germany, South Africa and Brazil). The study … Leia mais

Press Emblem report shows Brazil surpass Peru in number of journalists deaths caused by Covid-19

Brazil has been making the headlines day after day due to the worrying records of Covid-related deaths in recent weeks. Now, the country has reached the top of the list of countries with the highest number of journalists who died of Covid-19 – 878 in 70 nations – since the beginning of the pandemic. The … Leia mais

RSF tallied 580 attacks against media in Brazil in 2020

  Brazil was hit hard by the coronavirus health crisis, which affects not only the general public but the media as well.  Yet reliable information is crucial to control the spread of the virus, quality journalism has been suffering a series of attacks from the Government, according to a recent report issued by Reporters Without Borders … Leia mais

Trump tweeted against the press more than once a day in five years

Donald Trump left the White House with a bad reputation endorsed by titles such as the largest generator of fake news about the pandemic granted by Cornell University or the president of the country with the worst handling of the coronavirus crisis among 105 nations evaluated by the consultancy Brand Finance. The damaged Trump brand may … Leia mais

Interview: Meera Selva (The Reuters Institute)

  By Luciana Gurgel | MediaTalks, London    In June, six months after the pandemic started to spread across the world, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (University of Oxford) decided to release the preliminary results of a survey into the state of journalists’ emotional wellbeing. ” The top-line findings are so striking that we … Leia mais

UK Government creates unit to regulate Google and Facebook

A new code will govern commercial arrangements between publishers and platforms to help keep publishers in business, says the government  In the same week, Marketers for Open Web asked the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to delay Google’s Privacy Sandbox launch, that would“cement its dominance of online business and frustrate bids by regulators around the … Leia mais

The research World Without News, by Newsworks, UK

  Luciana Gurgel | MediaTalks by J&Cia, London   One of the questions asked by journalists and researchers in the beginning of the pandemic was whether the gain in trust by quality journalism shown by several studies at that time was here to stay. The answer begins to emerge. And, at least in the UK, … Leia mais

The Reuters Institute’s interview with Shirish Kulkarni

  By Aldo De Luca | MediaTalks, London   Investigative journalist and researcher Shrish Kulkarni may not have read the behavioural study World Without News commissioned by Newsworks that deprived regular readers from consuming news brands in order to understand the role that journalism plays in people’s lives. But at a talk held by the … Leia mais

Lionel Barber’s (former Financial Times Editor) new book

The Powerful and the Damned, by one of the most influential media editors of contemporary journalism   Por Luciana Gurgel | MediaTalks, Londres In his first book after leaving the top Financial Time’s editorial position, which he held between 2005 and January this year, Brit journalist Lionel Barber provides a behind-the-scenes history of one of the … Leia mais

The Powerful and the Damned: a vida por trás das manchetes do Financial Times

Em seu primeiro livro após deixar o comando da Redação do Financial Times, que liderou entre 2005 e janeiro de 2020, o jornalista britânico Lionel Barber faz um histórico dos bastidores de um dos mais influentes e premiados jornais do mundo. Um relato que também coloca em pauta a delicada questão do relacionamento da imprensa … Leia mais

Book: The Fleet Street Girls, by Julie Welch

  Launched in August, this is an interesting story of women who broke barriers, besides showing how the British newsrooms used to be not so long ago. Summary “The Fleet Street Girls is the inspiring and evocative story of the female journalists who broke down barriers in the 1970s and 1980s as women moved up the … Leia mais

Journalism matters and the British campaigning journalism

By Luciana Gurgel | MediaTalks, London  The British tradition of campaigning journalism was highlighted in the annual News Media Association’s campaign, in a year in which the media was so instrumental in informing and engaging the population during the coronavirus pandemic.   Even Queen Elizabeth has praised newspapers, despite the legendary persecution of the royals by … Leia mais

World News Day: as melhores reportagens de 2020

    Por Aldo De Luca | MediaTalks, Londres  O site journalism.co.uk  aproveitou a celebração do Dia Mundial das Notícias (WND),em 28 de setembro, para reconhecer os trabalhos jornalísticos realizados em 2020 considerados notáveis nas seguintes áreas: jornalismo investigativo e colaborativo, local, móvel, de dados e de soluções, além de documentário e fotojornalismo. Os temas variaram … Leia mais

O melhor do jornalismo de campanha britânico em 2020

Por Aldo De Luca | MediaTalks, Londres  Os avanços da legislação ou das iniciativas em prol de maior justiça social, assistência à saúde ou defesa do meio ambiente no Reino Unido não necessariamente se devem à melhor qualidade de seus congressistas ou autoridades, mas também – ou até principalmente – às campanhas promovidas por seus … Leia mais