The media have been following every step of this journey – with multiple stories, incessant headlines, and continuous updates across the past few weeks.
What role can the media play in managing the COVID-19 outbreak?
The media can play a critical role in tackling misinformation and disinformation in addition to committing to transparency and providing the community with potential health advice. Furthermore it plays important role in addressing hate speech directed at infected people and especially those countries where the disease came from
I think that UNESCO has published a guide for journalists and the media on : how the media should cover information during terrorist acts, in parallel WHO should publish a guide: how the media cover information during COVID-19 pandemic...
Media can raise awareness by providing reliable information to people around the world.
https://www.id-hub.com/2020/03/05/role-can-media-play-managing-covid-19-outbreak/
The main thing that media can do in this Pandemic is to provide relevant data and information. It can also play a major role on providing knowledge and rise awareness about this Pandemic. As medias are also the front-liner of this Pandemic,people are now much aware about this disease.