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Kansas City Journalists Keep Reporting Despite COVID-19 Pandemic

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Journalists are protecting themselves and their subjects by socially distancing themselves while reporting the news.

Boom microphones, longer lenses and anchoring from home are ways journalists are managing to provide news coverage of the coronavirus. Three of them reveal what is now missing in face-to-face interactions, and what's stuck with them the most as the national story unfolds.

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