Lei de Acesso à Informação / Barreiras A aprovação da Lei de Acesso à Informação completa 9 anos nesta 4ª feira (18.nov), sendo promulgada em 2011. Levantamento no governo federal, nas 27 unidades da Federação e no Congresso indica que há ainda…
The New York Times Last year, I outlined what I considered to be the four major milestones a newspaper must eventually reach for its transition to a truly digital company to be successful. They are: Fonte: Nieman Lab Leia todo o texto…
Boulos / imagem Guilherme Boulos, candidato do PSOL à prefeitura de São Paulo, passou ao segundo turno com 20,2% dos votos válidos e vai disputar o comando da cidade mais rica da América do Sul contra o atual prefeito Bruno Covas, do…
National crisis / Local reporting Jamie Satterfield's husband of thirty years died of cancer in 2015. After his death, the hospital that treated him sued Satterfield for falling behind on her late husband’s medical bills. Satterfield, a veteran reporter for…
Uncertainty / Facts I have always worked with facts. I have sifted them for relevance, assembled them to make sense of things, and used them to construct an argument or to disagree with another point of view. Facts are, for…
Facebook Pulls / Speech Posts Facebook Inc. removed 22.5 million posts for violating the company’s policies around hate speech in the second quarter, more than double the number taken down during the first three months of the year and up from just 2.5…
Sociologist / Coronavirus We all know the Chernobyl script. A badly designed reactor suffered a meltdown. The decrepit Soviet regime tried to hide the disaster. Millions of citizens were put at risk. And the truth came out. The regime paid the…
BBC broadcasters / Twitter Regular freelance contributors and BBC broadcasters have been left angry and confused this weekend in the wake of the new director general Tim Davie’s comments about restrictions to their use of Twitter. Fonte: The Guardian Leia todo o…
UK’s internet / record levels Our annual Online Nation report shows that in April 2020, during the height of the coronavirus lockdown, UK adults spent a daily average of four hours and two minutes online. This is up from just under three and…
Covid-19 / Scientific Journals One big change brought on by Covid-19 is that virtually all the scientific research being produced about it is free to read. Anyone can access the many preliminary findings that scholars are posting on “preprint servers.” Data are shared openly via…
