Publisher's Synopsis
Guest editorial
Beyond fear: Reflections on Covid coverage by scholars and practitioners, by John Mair
Journalism that serves the public
- Pandemic brings out the ethical in journalism, by Dorothy Byrne
- Reporting on the pandemic: The ethical challenges facing journalists, by Tina Bettels-Schwabbauer and Paula Kennedy
- Issues and limitations in data journalism covering the Covid-19 pandemic: The Italian case, by Philip Di Salvo
- Research design for a comparative analysis of the media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, by Joan Pedro-Carañana, Tabe Bergman and Juan Antonio Carbonell-Asíns
Science, risk and misinformation
- 'Find me a four-year-old child' Journalistic ethics in a time of plague, by Brian Winston
- Infoxication, infodemics and disinformation: The disinfodemic in the Covid-19 crisis in Spain, by Cristina López García
- Countering coronavirus disinformation: Which strategies work and which don't?, by Alex Connock
- From a 'culture of fear' to a 'culture of hope' Media as agent for social change in times of pandemic, by Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos
Further international perspectives on the challenges facing media
- From domestic epidemic to world pandemic: News coverage about Covid-19 in China, by Zhan Zhang
- Arabic narratives: A study of Gulf Press coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, by Ahmed Mansoori and Muhammed Musa
- Balancing privacy and the right to information in Covid-19 reporting in Kenya, by Levi Obonyo and Lydia Ouma Radoli
- Reporting coronavirus responsibly - across the globe, by Catriona Bonfiglioli
