A 'playbook' for publishers amid pandemic: Here are the 9 challenges we addressed:
Challenge 1: How long to get revenues back on track?
Challenge 2: Who was best prepared for the crisis?
Challenge 3: How can publishers get advertisers back?
Challenge 4: Is the not-for-profit model the way to secure the future of local and public-service journalism?
Challenge 5: Reader Revenue – How to onboard and keep paying subscribers?
Challenge 6: COVID-19 has accelerated the digital transition – how to keep that momentum going?
Challenge 7: What we learned from stumbling into the remote newsroom?
Challenge 8: How to build on the trust gained during the crisis and keep the boosted audience?
Challenge 9: Are publishers prepared for what's next?

Leading German Economist: “The Virus Must Be Contained Before the Economy Can Recover”: Clemens Fuest, one of Germany’s top economists, discusses the impact of the coronavirus on governments and business. He says bankruptcies are inevitable and that the effects of the crisis will be with us for a long time to come.

Vírus pode ter estado adormecido algures antes de surgir na China, diz epidemiologista

Vírus pode ter estado adormecido algures antes de surgir na China, diz investigador de Oxford. É “necessária” uma investigação: Para justificar a sua teoria, Tom Jefferson, da Universidade de Oxford, recordou as várias descobertas de amostras do vírus em Espanha, Itália e Brasil, antes mesmo de este ter sido detetado no mercado na cidade chinesa de Wuhan. Os vírus “não vêm de lado nenhum, simplesmente há algo que os acorda”

Liberties Network Launches Campaign to Get Impact Analyses of Covid-19 Tracing Apps in 9 EU Countries: This initiative is calling the attention of governments and the general public to the fact that human rights are important safeguards during emergency situations, such as this pandemic. They ensure public trust - a precondition for any successful social coordination - and, ultimately, protect public health.

The countries joining the initiative include Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. Belgium, Germany and Ireland will also be covered in the project, but in these three countries, Liberties’ members took a different path, and they will not submit Freedom of Information requests as a first step.

Lessons from Faktograf’s cross-border collaboration to reduce COVID-19 misinformation: This Croatian fact-checking site joined forces with other misinformation specialists in Southeastern Europe, using Viber to debunk viral hoaxes and educate citizens

The Tricky Math of COVID-19 Herd Immunity: Herd immunity differs from place to place, and many factors influence how it’s calculated.

Europe’s pandemic politics: How the virus has changed the public’s worldview: As covid-19 raged, speculation grew that the crisis would restrengthen public support for the state; faith in experts; and both pro- and anti-Europeanism.

New research reveals these all to be illusions. Instead, the crisis has revolutionised citizens’ perceptions of global order – scrambling the distinctions between nationalism and globalism.