“Those We’ve Lost to the Coronavirus” was conceived as a solemn echo of “Portraits of Grief,” the long-running series that featured short obituaries of people who died in the 9/11 attacks.

“The Financial Times, Guardian and Telegraph media groups have unveiled significant cost cuts, the latest in a wave of publishers squeezing staff budgets to weather the coronavirus crisis….the Guardian [estimates] a hit of close to £20m over the next six months.”

“Coronavirus content earns approximately $0.77 on the dollar in terms of advertising revenue, however, it performs very well in driving memberships because readers have a hunger for content that not only informs, but offers opinions and insights into the second-order issues coming out of the pandemic.”

“India Abroad started in New York in 1970 and billed itself as a ‘window into the Indian American world,’ and that’s exactly what it was for a generation of Indian immigrants and their children.”

“Under normal circumstances, Axios is still weeks away from releasing its app. The more time to beta test, the better. But with COVID-19 striking across the U.S., the political and news media company pushed up the timeline, and today the app — for iOS users — goes live.”

“Some activists are worried that the calls for antitrust scrutiny of Big Tech — which have been rising from both the left and the right in the years leading up to the pandemic — will recede in part due to the big roles that tech companies and its leaders are playing during it.”

“The long-running China Watch section, funded by the government-controlled China Daily news outlet [and] written by Chinese state journalists, presents relentlessly upbeat views on China’s standing in the world in both print supplements and on a branded section of the Telegraph’s website.” China Watch has run in many major papers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post; we wrote about it in 2010.

“…to make it possible for local journalists to easily embed up-to-date visualizations related to the coronavirus pandemic on their sites for readers, and free up time for other important local journalism.”

“The case stems from a 2016 Mashable post on female photographers, which included Stephanie Sinclair and embedded an image from her Instagram feed. Mashable had previously failed to license the image directly, and Sinclair sued parent company Ziff Davis for using Instagram embedding as a workaround.”

“A healthy democracy depends on reliable information so people feel like they’re making sound decisions. This information is the responsibility of federal and local governments to disseminate. We rely on journalism to hold these bodies accountable and point out where we are being deceived.”

“Easter Sunday downstream consumption hit 16.3 GB per subscriber, which marked an increase of almost 16% over the previous Sunday (14.1 GB) and of 37.9% over Sunday, March 1 (11.8 GB), the latter of which was before COVID-19 social distancing measures started to take effect.”

That’s 35 employees worldwide.

“Google searches for ‘good news’ spiked a month ago and have only continued to rise…’It’s just been an avalanche of people writing and saying how much they need these stories or they read a story and tears are just streaming down their face,’ said Allison Klein, who runs the Inspired Life blog at The Washington Post. ‘People are constantly saying thank you for showing something that made them not feel terrible.'”

“The YouTube Video Builder, as the new tool is simply called, has been in testing with a small group of customers for months but has been rushed to launch more publicly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, where in-person video shoots are no longer an option, and many small businesses are strapped for cash.”

The funding is open to news organizations providing original news to local communities and will range from the low thousands of dollars for small hyper-local newsrooms to tens of thousands of dollars for larger newsrooms. You can apply now through April 29.