“In 2021, we have a chance to learn from a crisis we were largely unprepared to cover.” The biggest story of 2020 — probably the biggest story of our lifetimes — was a global one, and covering it effectively required global collaboration among journalists and news organizations. Media in the United States needed to have eyes and ears in China, Italy, Iran, and other hot spots in order to know what was coming. They needed reporting from all over — from Taiwan and Senegal to Brazil and the U.K. — to know which strategies were succeeding and which ones were failing. And as the race for a vaccine heated up, they needed to tell their audiences what was happening in Asia and Europe, and how progress there would impact the health of Americans.