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Media Cafe provides links to resources, articles about newspaper industry issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. (See below.)

See the Resources page for links to information about CARES Act programs, free content and more.

What journalists should know about Communications Decency Act Section 230

A government fund to help journalism … that wouldn’t corrupt journalism

Newsroom Notes: How do you run a newsroom through these unusual times?

Advertising in Crisis: The Long and Winding Road Back

The coronavirus conspiracy news cycle

Breaking journalism's bad habits

How COVID-19 conspiracy theorists are exploiting YouTube culture

Covid-19: science communication at its peak

Two-Thirds of Americans Expect Presidential Election Will Be Disrupted by COVID-19

SELF EXPLANATORY Journalism is under attack from coronavirus and the White House. But we're winning

Nearly three quarters of US senators call on Trump administration to help local news

Writing about the dead during a pandemic: 'They are not a statistic or data point'

After coronavirus furloughs, Gannett newspapers lay off journalists around the country

COVID-19 Accelerates Local News Trends, for Bad and Good

Year of Fear, Chapter 11: Transparency in a Time of Pandemic

Journalists uncover lessons from the 1918 pandemic useful in covering COVID-19

Is Patch actually producing quality local journalism?

A battered FOIA collides with the $2 trillion bailout

How COVID-19 is threatening press freedom: An interview with Joel Simon

Journalism is an Essential Service During the Pandemic. We Must Fund It Like One.

China, conspiracy theories, and the murky coronavirus origin story

Journalists can now find COVID-19 response related legislation from across country on Open States

Small Business Administration lists coronavirus relief options

Here are the newsroom layoffs, furloughs and closures caused by the coronavirus

‘If we survive, I’ll take it as a win’: How bootstrapped publishers are adapting