{"id": "fri-dont-wait-permission", "day": "Friday", "time": "4:15-5:30pm ET", "event_name": "We don't wait for permission: How to plan when our institutions won\u2019t", "event_description": "Back in March, a bunch of us saw that our newsrooms and institutions were failing to prepare to protect journalists as the pandemic spread. So we got together and made a guide to help people push their newsrooms to create policies that protected their staff.\n\nFour months later, coronavirus is spreading even faster, disinformation is convincing a large minority that it is all a big hoax, and layoffs have thrown many people\u2014including many from our own newsrooms\u2014deeper into precarity. It feels like there is no reprieve in sight. But we aren\u2019t powerless either: with projects like the Newsroom Guide to COVID-19, the COVID Tracking Project, FindTheMasks.com and neighborhood mutual aid projects, we are building ways to support each other with information and physical resources. None of this is enough but with 8 to 14 months to go in the most optimistic estimates, we gotta do something. So let\u2019s take some time to imagine and plan for what\u2019s next.", "facilitators": "Cordelia Yu, Tina Ye, Ted Han", "break": "", "everyone": "", "facilitators_twitter": "", "length": "75 minutes", "notepad": "", "room": "", "talk": "", "timeblock": "fri-415pm", "transcription": "", "event_dtstart": "2020-07-17T16:15:00", "event_dtend": "2020-07-17T17:30:00", "event_tzid": "America/New_York", "event_uid": "srccon-2020/fri-dont-wait-permission"}