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16 March 2020

Q&A: Coronavirus creates a responsibility for global media. They’re not meeting it

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Q&A: Coronavirus creates a responsibility for global media. They’re not meeting it

Dr. Marc Owen Jones, Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies and Digital Humanities at QF member Hamad Bin Khalifa University, on why worldwide news coverage of COVID-19 risks adding to public panic.

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