Covering the corona crisis
b'How have journalists approached reporting on the government\\u2019s response to the coronavirus pandemic? With public compliance key to the government\\u2019s response to Covid-19, where does the balance lie between reporting the government\\u2019s message and identifying its failing, potentially undermining its effectiveness? How have journalists coped with the logistics of lockdown: lack of face to face contacts, official briefings by phone or zoom call? What is changing now we are in phase two \\u2013 with more complicated messaging from government, no routine press conference and the action moving to local rather than national lockdowns.\\n\\nOn the panel to discuss these questions were:\\n\\nEvan Davis, presenter of PM, BBC Radio 4\\nKate McCann, Political Correspondent at Sky News\\nTom Newton Dunn, presenter and Chief Political Commentator at Times Radio and former Political Editor at The Sun\\nJennifer Williams, Politics and Investigations Editor at Manchester Evening News\\n\\nThe event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government.'