The year media business changed — then didn’t The pandemic’s impact on the local news business 3 questions with gal-dem’s Mariel Richards The Wall Street Journal’s SEO strategy, Teen Vogue’s outcry over its new editor and more The year the media business changed — then didn’t Since March 11, 2020, the media industry experienced all sorts of changes. Media companies left their offices as stay-at-home orders went out. They laid off employees as advertising revenue dried up. They pivoted to virtual events and remote video production as much of the industry began working from home. But a year to the day since the coronavirus crisis was declared a pandemic, the media business has not been permanently transformed all that much — at least not yet. And it isn’t likely to as a direct result of the pandemic, according to media executives.