Four keywords to understand journalism during a pandemic

From newspapers to television, from the internet to social media, we experience an overload of information on the Covid-19 pandemic. Science journalism has become an important source to help individuals understand what is true and what is false. In this video Philip Di Salvo, a post-doc researcher at USI Institute of Media and Journalism, proposes four key words to comprehend what is happening to the media. What good practices should readers adopt? For the first time in ages, journalism is called upon to talk about an unprecedented health an social emergency. The world of journalism is under a lot of pressure, and the press needs to convey information about the complex medical issue and at the same time provide updates on the numbers related to the spread of the disease. The first term from which Philip di Salvo's reflection starts is , used by the World Health Organization itself to describe a situation in which the circulation of information is excessive, inaccurate, disorienting and difficult to trace back to reliable sources. The amount of information on Covid-19 is in fact impressive and often of poor quality.