CBSSports.com blogger Adam Jacobi was fired for publishing an erroneous tweet that prematurely reported the death of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, according to Poynter. Jacobi tweeted the false news of Paterno's death, without citing his information source.
O jornal argentino La Nación está negociando a aquisição da empresa de mídia americana ImpreMedia, que detém sete jornais de língua espanhola, incluindo o La Opinión em Los Angeles e o El Diario/La Prensa em Nova York, o mais antigo jornal em espanhol nos Estados Unidos, informou o New York Post. La Nación, com sede em Buenos Aires, é o segundo maior jornal argentino.
The Argentine newspaper La Nación is negotiating the takeover of the U.S. media company ImpreMedia, which owns seven Spanish language newspapers, including La Opinión in Los Angeles and New York's El Diario/La Prensa, the oldest Spanish-language daily in the United States, reported the New York Post. La Nación, based in Buenos Aires, is Argentina's second-largest daily.
In a bid to "enter countries that may have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression," Twitter announced that it has the ability to begin censoring tweets on a country-by-country basis, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday, Jan. 26. The announcement has prompted fears that Twitter's commitment to free expression might be taking a back seat to profitability -- especially in light of the role Twitter played in the Arab spring and protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the United State
Brasil, Chile e Estados Unidos caíram na Classificação Mundial da Liberdade de Imprensa 2011-2012, divulgada pela organização Repórteres Sem Fronteiras (RSF) na quarta-feira 25 de janeiro. O Brasil desceu 41 posições e ocupa agora o 99º lugar do ranking. O Chile despencou 47 degraus e está atualmente em 80º. Já os Estados Unidos perderam 27 lugares e ficaram em 47º.
Brazil, Chile and the United States tumbled dramatically in the 2011-2012 Press Freedom Index that Reporters Without Borders released Wednesday, Jan. 25. Brazil dropped 41 places to no. 99, Chile plummeted 47 places to no. 80, and the United States fell 27 spots to no. 47.
Since it launched in September 2011, thousands of journalists have signed on to use the Facebook "subscribe" feature, which allows users to subscribe to the news feeds of journalists and public figures without having to befriend them. And since November, the average journalist has seen a 320 percent increase in the number of subscribers, Facebook is reporting.
Taking advantage of YouTube's massive audience -- the online site streams 4 billion videos a day and one hour of video is uploaded every second -- the Reuters news agency has announced the launch of Reuters TV, which will offer 10 different shows on the Reuters YouTube channel, according to Mashable.
Em outro exemplo de "barriga" dos veículos de comunicação, a imprensa americana espalhou de forma prematura via Twitter a notícia falsa da morte do ex-treinador de futebol americano da Universidade Estadual da Pensilvânia Joe Paterno, evidenciando novamente que "as ferramentas das redes sociais não devem forçar as organizações de notícias a sacrificar seus padrões", informou o New York Times.
In another example of news organizations jumping the gun as false information spreads like wildfire across Twitter, U.S. media outlets prematurely reported the death of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, driving home the lesson that "social media tools do not need to force news organizations to compromise their standards," according to The New York Times.