English By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton Share on Facebook Print this page The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on media globally, with increased censorship and harassment of journalists in many countries, but also a renewed awareness of the importance of reliable reporting, media experts say. News outlets forced out of business, attacks and threats against journalists, and an “avalanche” of disinformation were cited as some of the main challenges in 2020 for the news industry, during a World Press Freedom Conference panel earlier this month. “Now more than ever we need news we can trust,” Jesper Højberg, executive director of the Denmark-based nonprofit International Media Support (IMS), said in a video aired as part of the panel. But, Højberg said, the need for reliable information has “reawakened” the public to the “importance of critical, reliable information.”