Guest editorial

Beyond fear: Reflections on Covid coverage by scholars and practitioners, by John Mair

Journalism that serves the public

• Pandemic brings out the ethical in journalism, by Dorothy Byrne
  
• Reporting on the pandemic: The ethical challenges facing journalists, by Tina Bettels-Schwabbauer and Paula Kennedy
  
• Issues and limitations in data journalism covering the Covid-19 pandemic: The Italian case, by Philip Di Salvo
  
• Research design for a comparative analysis of the media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, by Joan Pedro-Carañana, Tabe Bergman and Juan Antonio Carbonell-Asíns
  

• 'Find me a four-year-old child': Journalistic ethics in a time of plague, by Brian Winston
  
• Infoxication, infodemics and disinformation: The disinfodemic in the Covid-19 crisis in Spain, by Cristina López García
  
• Countering coronavirus disinformation: Which strategies work and which don't?, by Alex Connock
  
• From a 'culture of fear' to a 'culture of hope': Media as agent for social change in times of pandemic, by Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos
  

• From domestic epidemic to world pandemic: News coverage about Covid-19 in China, by Zhan Zhang
  
• Arabic narratives: A study of Gulf Press coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, by Ahmed Mansoori and Muhammed Musa
  
• Balancing privacy and the right to information in Covid-19 reporting in Kenya, by Levi Obonyo and Lydia Ouma Radoli
  
• Reporting coronavirus responsibly - across the globe, by Catriona Bonfiglioli