FRIDAY 1 MAY 2020

Thank you for signing up to our recent webinars. We hope you enjoyed Prashant Rao's seminar on The Atlantic and Nic Newman's webinar about the opportunities of podcasting and the impact of COVID-19. If you weren't able to join us (or if you want a quick recap), here's a summary of our conversations and a few resources you may find helpful in the months ahead.

🏡 We are planning webinars for next week on Wednesday and Thursday. We'll announce the details soon. 

News podcasting and the impact of COVID-19

Our report. The number of news podcasts globally rose by almost 12,000 between January and October 2019, according to News Podcasts and the Opportunities for Publishers, a report the Reuters Institute published in December last year. The report finds that publishers are making significant investments in news podcasting hoping to attract younger audiences, build habit, and bring in additional revenue.

Our webinar. Lead author Nic Newman explained the main findings of the report an explored how the pandemic is changing the space, in terms of supply and demand.

📱 Read the report.
📑 Read the PDF version.
🎥 Watch the webinar.
📁 See the slides

Building a global media brand

The seminar. This week we also kicked off our weekly Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series with Prashant Rao, Global Editor at The Atlantic. He talked about the history and the mission of the US-based news magazine.

The takeaway. Prashant outlined how The Atlantic’s mission is not to compete with the outlets such as The New York Times orThe Financial Times in covering anything and everything. Instead, he says, the magazine maintains a focus on covering issues that are consistent with its founding values, particularly stories on the future of global democracy, authoritarianism and populism.

The series. This seminar was the first of this term's seminar series on the business and practice of journalism, chaired by Meera Selva. You can sign up for the next events in this link. 

🎥 Watch the webinar
📁 See the slides
✏️ Register for our event on Wednesday. The speaker will be Anand Menon, who will talk about Brexit in a time of chaos.

Suggested reading and resources on the pandemic

Suggested reading. The Reuters Institute has published a few pieces that can help you navigate the current pandemic and understand the impact it's having on our industry and on misinformation worldwide. Here are the links:

🧟‍♂️ Navigating the 'infodemic': how people in six countries access and rate news and information about coronavirus. | Rasmus K. Nielsen, Richard Fletcher, Nic Newman, J. Scott Brennen and Philip N. Howard

🦠Advice from public health experts Peter Drobac and Trudie Lang on how journalists can help stop the spread of the outbreak. | By Eduardo Suárez

💰What the pandemic may mean for the business of news. | By Rasmus Nielsen

🤥 How fact-checkers are fighting COVID–19 misinformation worldwide. | By Eduardo Suárez   

🧶A thread with many examples of great journalism on the pandemic. | From our Twitter account

Useful resources. Many institutions are creating guides and resources to help journalists cover this all-consuming story. Here are links to the best ones we've found: 

• The Committee to Protect Journalists has put together this safety advisory and has translated it into many languages. | CPJ
• A list of resources to help local newsrooms cover the coronavirus pandemic and adapt to remote work. | Lenfest Institute
• The International Press Institute has launched a website to track the attacks on press freedom worldwide in the age of COVID–19. | IPI
• WAN-IFRA is gathering pieces on how to manage a newsroom during the outbreak. | WAN-IFRA
• The ICFJ has launched a forum to connect journalists with some of the world’s top health practitioners and newsroom leaders. | ICFJ  
• The European Journalism Observatory is exploring how news brands are covering the pandemic in dozens of countries. | EJO

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Today's email was written by Eduardo Suárez and Louise Allcock.