How arts, sports and dining beats have changed due to 'social distancing' and the pandemic

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🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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What's a local sports editor to do when there are no sports? What's a classical music critic to do when there are no performances? What's a food writer to do when restaurants are closed? Three writers and editors join Brian Stelter for a dialogue about how their jobs and coverage priorities have changed due to the coronavirus crisis. Louisville Courier-Journal sports editor Rana Cash talks about how her newsroom is taking an "all hands on deck approach" to cover the crisis. Cash says, "Three of my sports reporters are currently on furlough this week. And so it's more pressure and it's harder to get things done. But this is such a unique story, such an important story that I feel like people are kind of willing to kind of go the extra mile because of the weight of it. And that's from our features reporters... to all of our sports writers." New York Magazine classical music and architecture critic Justin Davidson describes New York City "on pause." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution food and dining editor Ligaya Figueras explains how her section has adjusted dramatically to the sudden shutdown. Figueras says the paper has suspended restaurant reviews and added a new "guide to ordering takeout" feature, for example.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Days of staying at home are turning to weeks. Weeks are turning to months. Newsrooms and media companies across America and around the world have completely refashioned the way they do business and how they cover the news in the age of the coronavirus.
0:19.0	But what's a sports editor to do and there are no sports?
0:22.0	What's a classical music critic to do and there are no performances?
0:26.0	What's a food writer to do when no restaurants are open?
0:30.0	Those are a few of the questions here on this week's Reliable Sources Podcast.
0:33.7	So let's hit the music.
0:35.7	We've got to make this feel like the good old days, try to keep this production going
0:40.8	even though this is an at-home edition of the Reliable Sources podcast.
0:44.6	I am your host, Brian Stelter, and this weekly podcast is our chance to go in depth with media
0:50.0	leaders and newsmakers. Even in this age of social distancing, well it's not
0:55.5	social distancing, it's physical distancing. We're going to try to be social
0:59.8	today with three editors and writers from three different parts of the country who are all adapting, who are all working in new ways as a result of this virus.
1:10.0	So let me bring them in, starting with Rayina Cash, sports editor at the Louisville Courier Journal.
1:15.6	Reyna, welcome.
1:16.6	Hi, good to be with you.
1:18.8	Legaya Figueres is the Atlanta Journal Constitutions of Food and Dining Editor.
1:23.4	Welcome.
1:24.4	Thanks, Brian.
1:26.0	And here in New York with me, or somewhere near New York, I think,
1:29.1	Justin Davidson, he's the New York magazine, classical music,
1:32.2	and architecture critic.
1:33.2	Hi, great to be with you.
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