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.
A condenação de um jornalista dominicano a seis meses de prisão por difamação e injúria é perigosa e desproporcional, declarou a Repórteres Sem Fronteiras.
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.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called a Dominican Republic journalist's six-month prison sentence for slander and libel dangerous and disproportionate.
Honduran journalist Gilda Silvestrucci announced she received death threats over the phone mentioning the ages of her children and where they could be found, and family members were questioned about her, reported the organization C-Libre.
Reporting on the repossession of land seized in the community of Pinheirinho, in São José dos Campos in the interior of the state of São Paulo, has been marred by police brutality and the curtailment of press freedom.
The outcome of Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa's lawsuit against the newspaper El Universo remains unsettled after a scheduled hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 24, was suspended when one of the trial's three judges got sick, according to the news agency EFE.
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) published a report criticizing the Ecuadoran government for measures taken against freedom of the press and expression.
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.
Knowing how to write source code and manage data sets are skills no longer reserved for nerds; data journalism is a growing field in reporting. But, if you're not part of the (big) group of journalists that aren't familiar with coding, you can still take advantage of some digital tools to lessen the work behind a story.
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.