Covid In Newsroom
Masood Hussain narrates how while covering it, the dreaded virus caught up with the Kashmir Life team. The contagion brooks no complacency is the moral of the story
Kashmir Life Newsroom witnessed a 10-day long closure amid a series of fumigations. KL Image by Shuaib Wani
Circa 2020. After being shut for months, surviving as they were on dollops of vanilla journalism, newsrooms were getting back to what they ought to be; buzzing with activity. The newspapers were trying to revive, retrieve, and reconnect with the realities on the ground. The communication blockade had taken a toll not only on the readers – they were denied off their daily dose of news – but the journalists as well. The reporters had relocated, gone cold on their beat as their professional bread and butter has become a scarce commodity. The managements faced falling revenues resulting in holding back, cutting salaries to laying off people. The squeeze on journalists’ lives and livel