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In this April 1, 2020, photo, a news crew wearing personal protective equipment due to COVID-19 concerns reports outside the Chase Center that will become a makeshift hospital at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the Queens borough of New York. People desperate for information are more reliant than ever on local media as the coronavirus spreads across the U.S. But newspapers, magazines and digital publishers are feeling the pressure as advertising craters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Cristina De Alba visits her brother, Walmart shooting survivor Mario De Alba, in his hospital room in Chihuahua, Mexico, on Friday, July, 24, 2020. After being released from a long-term care facility in El Paso in February, the family traveled back to Chihuahua. He was hospitalized again after suffering complications. (Mark Lambie/El Paso Times)

El Paso Times journalists reflect on Walmart mass shooting and anniversary coverage

Staff at El Paso Times took care in covering the anniversary of the deadliest attack on Latinos all while working through their own trauma

President Donald Trump pumps his fist after speaking during an event at the Whirlpool Corporation Manufacturing Plant in Clyde, Ohio on Monday (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

President Trump lashes out at Twitter, Facebook and, sadly, China

Trump claimed the tech companies censor him because they don't like his politics and defended his use of the term "China virus."

In this Sunday, June 7, 2020, photograph, an unsold 2020 pickup truck sits under a message written on the windows of a Ram dealership in Littleton, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Used car prices are spiking during the coronavirus pandemic

Plus, a record number of car owners owe more than their cars are worth, grocery prices are rising fast, people keep drinking hand sanitizer, and more.

Sections of a USA Today newspaper. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Reversing a decade-long trend, Gannett plans to grow its newsroom staffs in the second half of 2020

Furloughs and pay cuts are being phased out in favor of permanent reductions from facilities, leases, travel and the elimination of some business jobs

Pictured at the top: Screenshots from The Seattle Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe.

How will we remember the people we’ve lost to the coronavirus?

One way: Local newsrooms are collecting obituaries of the people they've lost in their communities

Pete Hamill in 2007. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Remembering the legendary Pete Hamill, New York City’s “poet laureate”

Hamill was there when Robert F. Kennedy was shot, interviewed a post-Beatles Lennon and stood in lower Manhattan on 9/11. He died Wednesday at 85.

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