| Your lender might let you miss a few mortgage payments. Three questions you should ask first | | |  | WED, APR 08, 2020 | | | | Each morning over the past few weeks, my alarm clock buzzes at 6:15. I go about my daily routine and commute from my bedroom to my kitchen table and start my day, overseeing the CNBC personal finance team's news coverage.
It's an understatement to say that this is all quite surreal. Everyone has been impacted one way or another by this pandemic crisis. As journalists, it's our job to put emotions aside and make sure we continue to find ways to deliver accurate, timely news in these very challenging times.
As the outbreak has spread rapidly across the country, newsroom leaders, including those at CNBC, have had to make tough decisions about how to keep an industry that relies on human contact running, even as public health experts and governmental officials mandate social isolation. Like other media outlets, CNBC editors and reporters largely left their newsrooms to work from home.
The CNBC news teams stay connected via Slack, video-conferencing, emails and good old-fashioned phone calls.
As news breaks continuously, we have to keep delivering information you can use because we know people are glued to the news these days. And how can they not be?
Every day is a new surprise. Amid the uncertainty about how bad the outbreak could get — there are now hundreds of thousands of cases in the U.S., with the number of dead multiplying by the day — Americans appear to want few things more than the latest news on the coronavirus.
Additionally, the New York Times reported that Americans have also been seeking out more established media brands for information on the public health crisis and its economic consequences. To that point, CNBC has seen its readership skyrocket.
We are up to the challenge. Our news teams continue to collaborate, which allows us to gather the latest and most accurate information, and this affords us to cover more news angles. The CNBC news teams will continue to be here to help provide our audience with great journalism that you can trust.
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