Reporting Covid-19
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As the pandemic continues to impact the world, BBC World Service's Nina Robinson, talks to journalists from two daily newspapers in India and the United States as we explore its impact on people in their regions. Working with experienced editors and reporters from the daily Mumbai Mirror and Kentucky’s Courier Journal, this documentary gets under the skin of two newsrooms during this time of great uncertainty as each country comes to terms with coronavirus, handling lockdowns, hospital admissions and the unequal impact the virus is having on the poor and on ethnic minorities.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the BBC World Service documentary reporting COVID-19 from Mumbai in India and Louisville in the southern United States. |
| 0:12.0 | 15, so far 16. |
| 0:14.0 | Who wants to go first? |
| 0:17.0 | An online news meeting is just getting underway with Meinelle Baghel, editor of the Mumbai Mirror newspaper. This is when all the reporters pitch their |
| 0:26.0 | stories for that day's edition. |
| 0:28.0 | I think we should do a story on the condition with health workers. |
| 0:32.4 | Hi, this is Meinel-Baghheel. on the condition with health workers. |
| 0:33.0 | Hi, this is Meenal Bageil. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm the editor of Mumbai Mirror. |
| 0:37.0 | We are really in the middle of history, |
| 0:39.0 | and I'm just, well, hoping that this gets over, |
| 0:42.0 | but also grateful that I'm a witness to it. |
| 0:46.2 | On the other side of the world, Rick Green, editor of the Courier Journal newspaper in the U.S. is coordinating his daily coverage for the exact same story. |
| 0:57.0 | I got to tell you I'm one of the best damn lucky editors in the country right now to have a staff that's as talented and motivated and |
| 1:02.6 | determined to tell important stories, but I also know that there are strains. |
| 1:06.7 | I can hear it in their voices whenever we have our Zoom conferences, I can see it in |
| 1:11.2 | their faces that many of them are tired of being |
| 1:13.5 | alone. We're journalists and we want to be where the story is. We want to be in a |
| 1:17.6 | newsroom where we can collaborate and creatively push ourselves to new |
| 1:21.4 | limits. But the beauty of what we do is journalism is you always |
| 1:25.2 | overcome obstacles and you always remember the number one reason why we're in this and that's |
| 1:29.5 | to tell stories for |
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