Coronavirus: Reporting Covid-19

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

During the last year hundreds of people across the globe have shared their experiences on the programme about living during a pandemic. This time, we view this challenging situation through a journalist’s lens. Reporters from India, Brazil, the United States, Italy, South Africa, Rwanda and New Zealand share, with host Nuala McGovern, what it’s like to work on possibly the most important story of their careers. They reveal the difficulties of obtaining accurate information, the influence of governments, and how they now deal with misinformation.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Nula McGovrin on the BBC World Service, and this is BBC OS conversations, reporting COVID.
0:10.0	Four journalists from across the globe shared their experiences of
0:15.8	reporting during a pandemic including the challenges for a TV reporter in
0:21.2	Rio on knowing that while ratings may be high, the message isn't always
0:25.6	getting through.
0:27.6	We have like the most amazing year in terms of audience, but it was really hard to communicate and to say you have to
0:36.6	take care of yourself when the government simply doesn't care. Everyone has a story to tell during the past year and we've been hearing many of those
0:49.0	conversations by bringing people together from around the world,
0:53.0	from overwhelmed health care workers and funeral directors
0:57.0	to people losing their livelihoods,
0:59.0	and sadly, so many grieving families.
1:02.0	Journalists, be it for radio, TV. so many grieving families.
1:03.0	Journalists, be it for radio, TV, print or online,
1:06.0	they've been at the forefront of this story
1:09.0	when it comes to explaining what is happening,
1:11.0	analyzing the spread of the disease, or simply trying to wade through
1:15.3	the scientific and health information to uncover what is reliable and credible or not, as
1:21.7	the case may be. To understand the professional and personal
1:25.8	challenges for those who have spent the pandemic reporting on
1:28.8	coronavirus and COVID-19 we're going to spend the next hour in conversation with four people.
1:35.0	Barbara Carvalho in Rio is a reporter with Brazil's TV news station, Global News.
1:40.0	Apurvo Mandevili is a global health and science reporter at the New York Times in the US.
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