America's Newspapers, Editor and Publisher join forces to create COVID-19 resource

America’s Newspapers and Editor & Publisher have launched Media Virus Watch as an online source for the latest COVID-19 information.
Media Virus Watch — www.mediaviruswatch.com — gathers coronavirus data, reporting and presentation innovations, customer service issues and resources for news publishers.
It is designed to serve as a hub for webinars on COVID-19 topics critical to the news media and as a portal for news publishers to submit the work and ideas of their organizations.
America’s Newspapers, the nationwide association championing newspapers, and Editor & Publisher, the authoritative voice of news publishing, have both launched content and curation initiatives focusing on the COVID-19 crisis.
“This partnership with the industry’s most important publication strengthens the support we can provide for news organizations,” said Dean Ridings, America’s Newspapers CEO.
Publisher Mike Blinder said E&P has added staff and resources to the effort.
Blinder noted that E&P is tripling the number of podcast interviews it conducts, and has contracted with the app developer Pugpig to distribute Media Virus Watch on mobile devices.