✅WHAT’S NEW IN PUBLISHING｜20200508
🔗How an Indian magazine achieved 30% growth in circulation during lockdown, with free vegetable seeds

Anyone trying to start their own vegetable garden during the Covid-19 lockdown and experienced how tough it is to find home delivered vegetable seeds will wish they were subscribers to India’s Manorama Weekly magazine. Subscribers get their seed packets glued to the magazine.

✅POYNTER｜20200504
🔗Here are the winners of the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes
ℹThe Pulitzer Prizes are generally regarded as the highest honor that U.S.-based journalists and organizations can receive.

✅PEW RESEARCH CENTER｜20200429
🔗About Seven-in-Ten U.S. Adults Say They Need to Take Breaks From COVID-19 News

61% give equal attention to national and local coronavirus news.

✅BBC NEWS｜20200419
🔗Coronavirus doctor’s diary: ‘Fake news makes patients think we want them to die’

In the Covid pandemic, smartphones and social media have connected families who are separated because of the risk of infection – but they’ve also helped generate a blizzard of dangerous fake news.

✅NIEMAN REPORTS｜20200409
🔗What Role Should Newsrooms Play in Debunking COVID-19 Misinformation?

When conspiracies pass a tipping point, newsrooms working collectively to push out strong debunks can slow the spread of myths and misinformation

✅POYNTER ｜20200407
🔗Writing about death is one of the hardest, most valuable things journalists do — here’s how to do it correctly.
One of the toughest rites of passage for young journalists is writing about someone who just died.

✅DONALD W. REYNOLDS JOURNALISM INSTITUTE｜20200331
🔗What’s Working: The coronavirus crisis has lessons for us about service journalism

If service journalism has a time to shine, it’s during a crisis. When things are going wrong, people need good, specific information to deal with the situation, they need to know that the information is trustworthy, and they need it fast — being able to make decisions quickly is fundamental to crisis management.

✅THE NEW YORK TIMES｜20200323
🔗Big Tech Could Emerge From Coronavirus Crisis Stronger Than Ever

Amazon is hiring aggressively to meet customer demand. Traffic has soared on Facebook and YouTube. And cloud computing has become essential to home workers.

✅PEW RESEARCH CENTER｜20200318
🔗Americans Immersed in COVID-19 News; Most Think Media Are Doing Fairly Well Covering It

About half say they have seen at least some made-up news about the coronavirus; 29% think it was created in a lab

✅PRESS WATCH｜20200305
🔗Get political reporters off the coronavirus story because they don’t distinguish between right and wrong

But news organizations also need to take political reporters – and perhaps even more importantly, political editors – entirely out of the loop on this story. It’s too damned important to be covered as a two-sided battle over who’s winning the narrative.