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Rasmus Nielsen Advertising revenues are taking a massive blow. Some local publishers say they are down by 50%, some national titles by 30%. Online advertising revenues are further challenged by advertisers blacklisting coronavirus-related stories and by some platforms at least temporarily demonetizing coronavirus-related content ======================================================================= “A lot of news media won’t make it but this is an opportunity for some,” writes our Director Rasmus Nielsen The coronavirus pandemic will impact every part of our lives and societies, including our news media. Even in the best case scenario, there will be major disruptions in many countries for months, with economic and…

“During a global public health crisis, journalists play a crucial role in guaranteeing the right to information. They must be able to move about and communicate with their sources confidentially. And to cover the crisis, journalists may need to contact carriers of the virus. It is essential that the technological measures deployed by governments do not endanger this confidentiality”- Christophe Deloire, Secretary General, Reporters Without Borders When governments use mobile phone location and contact data to trace the recent contacts of coronavirus carriers with the aim of containing the spread of the virus, they must ensure that these measures are…

Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash Meera Selva “Journalists are still doing extraordinary work, putting themselves at risk to report on a pandemic that is turning global systems upside down on an unprecedented scale. This pandemic must be documented, analysed and recorded. People’s stories must be told and politicians must be held to account if societies are to rebuild themselves. It is vital that journalism continues”- writes Meera Selva Journalists are writing the first draft of history, frantically typing out their stories on what it means to have societies go into lockdown, as governments use the crisis as an opportunity…

Access Now releases “Fighting misinformation and defending free expression during COVID-19: recommendations for states While misinformation, disinformation, and state-sponsored propaganda are not unique to COVID-19, in the context of an unprecedented health crisis, these phenomena have posed a serious risk to public health as well as public action The world has been fighting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) since late 2019, and with it, the rapid growth of COVID-19-related misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech. In response to this “infodemic,” governments around the world have swiftly implemented measures that disproportionately limit freedom of expression and opinion. To support governments in fighting against…

Image Credit: unsplash JULIE POSETTI AND KALINA BONTCHEVA COVID-19 has spawned a flood of potentially deadly mis- and disinformation that directly impacts lives and livelihoods around the world. UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres has described this as a “poison,” and humanity’s other new “enemy.” What is the disinfodemic? The term we have adopted to describe the falsehoods fuelling the pandemic is disinfodemic because of the huge viral load of potentially deadly disinformation. The disinfodemic often hides falsehoods amidst true information, and conceals itself in the clothes of familiar formats. It resorts to well-known distribution methods ranging from false or misleading…

Renu Kotwal Once a media teacher asked his students “who is a journalist? “ The students replied with answers like “one who informs people” “Journalist gives news to people” “A journalist connects the commoners with government”. The media teacher said that every answer is correct but the most simple and appropriate answer is that “Journalists are storytellers”. But every storyteller is not a journalist. A journalist narrates a real incident, discovery, progress which impacts people’s life with objectivity in his narration. Facts are sacred for a journalist. They narrate happenings of world to the masses with the most attainable form…

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After the Cold War, the wave of freedom swept the globe. Larger number of countries moved towards more liberal and democratic system of governance and resulting enhancement of press freedom. The process of globalization set in with more vigorously and neo-liberal reforms swept the world. But in the later phase the process of globalization took different turn and the multinational corporations acquired dominant role in running and managing the global political and economic system. This paved the way for concentration of economic power and resultant concentration of ownership of media. New technologies facilitated emergence of some global media and information…

डॉ. कुमार कौस्तुभमोबाइल पत्रकार को अपने ऑडिएंस की दिलचस्पी का ध्यान रखते हुए कम से कम समय और शब्दों में खबर देने की सलाहियत होनी चाहिए- यही मोबाइल पत्रकारिता का मूल मंत्र हैपत्रकारिता को पहले भाषाई आधार पर हिंदी, अंग्रेजी, उर्दू, वगैरह और फिर इसके बाद बीट यानी विभाग के आधार पर परिभाषित किया जाता था- राजनीतिक पत्रकारिता, खेल पत्रकारिता, बिज़नेस या आर्थिक पत्रकारिता, खेल पत्रकारिता, विज्ञान पत्रकारिता, इत्यादि। बीट आधारित पत्रकारिता का विभाजन अब धीरे-धीरे खत्म होता जा रहा और अब यह समझ पुरानी पड़ती जा रही है क्योंकि वर्तमान दौर में पत्रकारों को “Jack of All Trades, Master…

प्रो. संजय द्विवेदीहिंदी पत्रकारिता पर आरोप लग रहे हैं कि वह अपने समय के सवालों से कट रही है। उन पर बौद्धिक विमर्श छेड़ना तो दूर, वह उन मुद्दों की वास्तविक तस्वीर सूचनात्मक ढंग से भी रखने में विफल पा रही है तो यह सवाल भी उठने लगा है कि आखिर ऐसा क्यों है। 1990 के बाद के उदारीकरण के सालों में अखबारों का सुदर्शन कलेवर, उनकी शानदार प्रिटिंग और प्रस्तुति सारा कुछ बदला है। वे अब पढ़े जाने के साथ-साथ देखे जाने लायक भी बने हैं। किंतु क्या कारण है उनकी पठनीयता बहुत प्रभावित हो रही है। वे अब पढ़े…