Tag: coronavirus

• UK government and UN commit to protect seafarers and help stabilise global shipping market

  July 9, 2020

  Marking the International Day of the Seafarer, the UK government has today (25 June 2020) announced it will host the first international summit on the impact of COVID-19 on crew… more ›

• ‘The Invisibles’: Unseen footage of Italy’s migrant labourers at peak of COVID-19

  July 5, 2020

  Those are the words of Aboubakar Soumahoro, an Ivorian living in Italy whose work as a union leader to fight for the rights of over 200,000 migrant labourers – mostly… more ›

• The Post-Pandemic Style

  July 3, 2020

  Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Subscribe to support our journalism. Start your free trial. Outside grocery stores, neat yellow marks on concrete sidewalks compose masked… more ›

• The Long Shadow Of The Future

  June 17, 2020

  We’re living through a real-time natural experiment on a global scale. The differential performance of countries, cities and regions in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic is a live test… more ›

• A teenager’s guide to building the world’s best pandemic and protest trackers

  June 13, 2020

  Schiffmann could have rested on his laurels, but the murder of George Floyd prompted another project. This new site is simple and serves one primary purpose: find local protests. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/12/1002838/avi-schiffmann-17-year-old-guide-building-pandemic-protest-tracker/ more ›

• A nation on pause: coronavirus in India

  May 24, 2020

  Nilanjana S Roy   It was the beginning, though we did not know what it meant then, the river of men and women eddying towards the Nizamuddin Railway Station in… more ›

• The haunting of Girlstown

  May 23, 2020

  Between October 2006 and June 2007, more than 500 students, one teacher, and some religious mothers succumbed to the contagion. An estimated 300 girls were sent home. At the height… more ›

• Here’s (exactly) how we organized one of the largest virtual U.S. journalism events to date

  May 23, 2020

  The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University has hosted the Collaborative Journalism Summit every year since 2017. The first two conferences took place in Montclair, N.J.; last year’s… more ›

• The rise of robots, automation and e-commerce in the post-pandemic world

  May 23, 2020

  In this episode of Business Line the team examine how the economic crisis prompted by the coronavirus pandemic is likely to see companies accelerate plans to adopt innovative Artificial Intelligence… more ›

• Sundar Pichai Says Google Doesn’t Plan to Go Entirely Remote

  May 23, 2020

  Sundar Pichai’s job wasn’t particularly easy before Covid-19. https://www.wired.com/story/sundar-pichai-google-not-entirely-remote/ more ›