{"id":17784,"date":"2020-03-25T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/twitter-is-donating-1m-across-two-foundations-to-support-journalism-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic.html"},"modified":"2020-03-25T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:01:08","slug":"twitter-is-donating-1m-across-two-foundations-to-support-journalism-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/twitter-is-donating-1m-across-two-foundations-to-support-journalism-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter is donating $1M across two foundations to support journalism during the coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social media companies have been hard at work to make sure they play a helpful rather than harmful role<\/a> in disseminating news and information about the coronavirus pandemic. Today, Twitter took an extra step beyond its own platform to put its efforts into the wider, already under-pressure world of journalism. Twitter <\/a> announced that it would be donating $1 million equally<\/a> between two organizations, the\u00a0Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a> and the International Women\u2019s Media Foundation<\/a>, to further their work specifically related to supporting those reporting on COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Organizations like the IWMF and the CJP always play a vital role \u2014 respectively in supporting the work of female journalists and in defending all journalists who are working in complicated environments or with tricky subject matter. But it\u2019s in times of crisis that you can especially see how vital their existence is. If you look now on the CJP site, for example, there are a number of stories<\/a> shedding light on how journalists covering coronavirus news are under threat<\/a>, particularly in countries where governments are trying to suppress too much negative information passed to the public. It\u2019s a role that is especially urgent to play now, given just how much people are turning to the news and the public service that journalists are playing in getting information out.<\/p>\n

The fact is that journalists are in no way immune from the wider theme of the world right now, which is that this global pandemic has drastically altered nearly every aspect of our lives. As Vijaya Gadde noted when announcing the grants, \u201cRight now, every journalist is a COVID-19 journalist.\u201d And given Twitter\u2019s deep link with news, this means journalists\u2019 plights \u2014 with some risking their health if not their lives to report stories \u2014 are Twitter\u2019s plights. \u201cJournalism is core to our service and we have a deep and enduring responsibility to protect that work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, the larger economic pressures of this public health crisis are a huge blow to journalism, which was already under a lot of financial pressure as a business. To that end, Gadde noted that the funds will be used in some way to help with that, \u201cto ensure these organizations can continue their work in the face of new economic strains and to directly support journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twitter is not the first social media organization to donate to journalism. Last week, Facebook also announced two tranches of $1 million each that it was donating respectively to news organizations for coronavirus reporting<\/a>, and to fact-checking organizations<\/a> to make sure the content shared on Facebook remains on the straight and narrow when it comes to being accurate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are grateful for Twitter\u2019s generous support. Our efforts at CPJ are focused on ensuring that journalists around the world have the information and resources they need to cover the COVID-19 pandemic safely. And we are pushing back against governments that are censoring the news, and restricting the work of the press. We need timely, accurate information flowing within countries and across borders so that political leaders, health policy experts, and the public at large can make informed decisions at this critical moment,\u201d said Joel Simon, executive director, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, there is a great need to support our community of journalists covering, and dealing with, this global pandemic. Based on our decades of work with journalists who operate in dangerous and difficult environments, the IWMF understands the critical role that safety and security plays in the industry. Thanks to the incredible support of Twitter, the IWMF will be able to address the needs of our community of journalists more deeply and robustly. By supporting journalists from diverse communities, together we can support the most representative news possible in this evolving time,\u201d added Elisa Lees Mu\u00f1oz, executive director, International Women\u2019s Media Foundation (IWMF), in her own statement.<\/p>\n

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