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A zeladoria da sociedade
There is one disinformation aspect that is less lauded outside newsrooms, but can be just as harmful. With the obliteration of the traditional media business model, journalism in most places had to adapt in a way that the battle for accurate information is lost from the start.…
Virtually any news coverage today is tainted by lousy information somehow. It goes from orchestrated manoeuvres by foreign states to simple partisan media coverage made to appease audiences with enough purchasing power to subscribe to the most comfortable cable channel. But the problem goes way down the waterline.…
Open up your preferred publication. As it is likely, you only keep that as “preferred” for your identity-building, as it’s highly unlikely that you read, watches or listen more than 50% of your content diet from there. But, anyway, take a look at the headlines you have.…
Journalism, as we know, is dying. There is still a frantic discussion around the subject by us – journalists – but to paraphrase Coldplay’s Thom Yorke, it’s more of a “the last desperate fart of a dying corpse”. But rejoice: that’s not bad at all.…
Subscriptions, not ads nor social-generated windfall miracles seem to be, after all, the most credible way for journalism to regain solid ground. Hear no mermaid singing of trendy tech cornucopias: Even if still away from sustainability – let alone the fat margins of pre-digital – the consistent deployment of readers paying for journalism is the conducting wire behind some shimmering hope in a scorched earth media environment.…
In the last decade or a little bit more, everything the world knew about communication proved to be wrong. Newspapers were brought down to Earth when they found out that the relevance they had was due to their monopolies of the distribution channels much more than from the quality of the “journalism” they produced.…
Last week, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to be in Warsaw for the n-ost conference. Journalism is one very ungrateful trade nowadays, with issues from small wages to an inglorious fight to stay relevant, but that meeting was nothing about it.…
In a world where space is infinite, why is not everyone there? This is the most fascinating question that came to me reading a study made by Yochai Benkler, author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School following the symptoms that show that centre-right is not well-represented in US media (which I think may be the same as in other countries).…
These days, the general feeling among the digital media observers in the world is a mix of fear, uncertainty and commiseration. The industry as we know is plainly sinking. Digital journalists are replacing the number of traditional media jobs at a scale of 20 to 1.…
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see”
Theodore Roethke
Every week, tech companies and their extensions announce the rollout of a new resource, something that will bring great benefits for society, something that will bring back lot revenues and relevance for publishers, something that journalists have long been waiting for and will return them to their role of caretakers of society and guardians of the democracy.…
Quando, na madrugada de 9 de Novembro, Donald Trump fez seu pronunciamento já como presidente eleito, a América liberal (e o mundo) sentiu um frio na espinha digno de filmes de terror. Trump, numa excitação quase histérica, anunciava a capitulação democrata após um longo e sangrento combate diante de uma sociedade atônita.…
Houve um tempo, não muito distante, onde a modelação de conteúdo para uma publicação era mais simples: as matérias eram feitas segundo as convicções das redações e acontecimentos dos nichos abordados. As audiência iam atrás do que queriam ler. Mas isso acabou.…