April 26-28: Journalists keep the public informed during COVID-19 pandemic

Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organization that has provided consistent COVID-19 coverage.

US journalists seek to help colleagues affected by virus

April 26: Journalists from all around the US are continuing to support other journalists who have been affecting by the COVID-19, according to WKBN First News.

Support for journalism has come from Virginia, California, and New York. In Virginia, journalists are collecting donations for other journalists. Journalists from California and New York are providing interest-free microloans to help others in the field make ends meet.

Sisi Wei, a former editor at investigative nonprofit outlet ProPublica, joined four other reporters from around the country to create “Microloans for Journalists” to offer interest-free loans of $500 from funds donated by other journalists.

Borrowers are asked to repay the loans within a year, although lenders can designate their money as gifts.

Henri Gendreau, a reporter at The Roanoke Times, hopes people of Virginia will see the importance of local journalism during a crisis.

Trump calls for journalists who covered the Russia investigation to return their 'Noble Prizes' in Twitter rant before deleting it

April 26: Business Insider reported that President Donald Trump lashed out at the news media on Sunday, telling media members in tweets he swiftly deleted to return their "Noble Prizes" for their reporting on Russia.

His later deleted Twitter thread said, “When will all of the 'reporters' who have received Noble Prizes for their work on Russia, Russia, Russia, only to have been proven totally wrong (and, in fact, it was the other side who committed the crimes) be turning back their cherished 'Nobles' so that they can be given to the REAL REPORTERS & JOURNALISTS who got it right."

Trump also tweeted that "Lawsuits should be brought against all, including the Fake News Organizations, to rectify this terrible injustice. For all of the great lawyers out there, do we have any takers? When will the Noble Committee Act? Better be fast!"

The Pulitzer prizes are actually the awards journalists are eligible to win rather than the Nobel Prize which is awarded for categories such as literature, medicine, and physics.

Trump later claimed he made those tweets sarcastically to reporters to see what would happen.

Mark Austin on why faith in journalists has taken a hit during COVID-19

April 27: Mark Austin, a Sky News presenter, discusses why faith in journalists has taken a hit during the COVID-19 pandemic according to Sky News.

Austin explained while television news is imperfect, it is important for mistakes to be acknowledged and fixed to avoid the spread of misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic.

Austin also explained that it bothered him that faith in TV journalists was taking a hit because trust is an important trait for journalists to have.

Journalists who repeatedly raise legitimate questions about COVID-19 on daily television news may be bringing an unsettling and unwelcome message. But, journalists do not deserve to be the ones losing the public trust for delivering important news during the COVID-19 pandemic.