By Christina Pazzanese
When a disease outbreak grabs the public’s attention, formal recommendations from medical experts are often muffled by a barrage of half-baked advice, sketchy remedies, and misguided theories that circulate as anxious people rush to understand a new health risk.
By Glory E. Dharmaraj
The dual shadow cast by the Covid-19 pandemic and the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by police brutality has made many of us in the USA “see” things which often go unreported or underreported in the media landscape. The dual pandemic has unveiled social inequities as never before. News media have been relentlessly capturing impact stories of Covid-19 as well as systemic racism.
Por David Morales Alba
En Colombia, las cifras sobre el número de personas infectadas con la Covid-19, los casos activos, datos sobre fallecimientos y el índice de recuperación se han convertido en el mensaje diario de los medios de comunicación, en relación con el impacto del virus. Pareciera que estos datos son el nuevo indicador económico.
Por José Luis Soto
Reportaje y saludos solidarios desde el Espacio de Comunicación Insular (Espacinsular) en la República Dominicana, 22 de mayo de 2020.
