What’s Lost and Won as Newsrooms Close Their Offices for Good

Posted Tuesday, December 1, 2020 11:00 am

Ruth Margalit | CJR

On a freezing Thursday in March, Liz Bowie, an education reporter for the Baltimore Sun, was at her desk in the newsroom when an email started circulating that employees should take their laptops home for the weekend. “We’re going to go all Slack,” an editor said; the staff was offered a one-hour refresher course on how to use the software.

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