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For the first time, the
14th Ibero-American Colloquium on Digital Journalism, typically held in Spanish, was also heard in Portuguese. Thousands of viewers in Latin America, Spain and Portugal tuned in for the annual event.
On May 1, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas hosted the event, which is traditionally held the day after the close of the International Symposium on Online Journalism, for conference registrants from Ibero-America. This year, 1,427 people from 47 countries registered for the colloquium, which was sponsored by Google News Initiative. Most registrants were from Brazil (321), Mexico (205) and Colombia (125).
On Zoom, the event drew 525 total users. It was also streamed in Spanish and Portuguese on YouTube. As of Tuesday, May 18, streams of the colloquium on the video platform had more than 2,600 views.
Andrew Cuomo’s Bad Press
Since December, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, has not taken an in-person question from a reporter. Amid compounding crises, Cuomo––who was hailed by much of the national press at the height of New York’s COVID outbreak––has hidden from journalists, under the guise of health and safety protocols. (No matter that he held briefings last spring, when COVID peaked in New York, with reporters allowed inside.) His recent press conferences have been stacked, instead, with supporters.
On Monday, Josefa Velásquez, of
THE CITY, asked Cuomo when he’d let the press return. “That is purely a function of the COVID safety requirements,” Cuomo responded. As Zach Williams, of