At the start of March the coronavirus live blog was already attracting 3 million page views each day. All of us who do the coronavirus live blog have been sent a stream of emails, tweets and texts from readers with helpful tips, insights, corrections, and encouragement. Though principally used to convey the latest on the breaking stories of the day, live blogs are not always bleak. And when the website and print reporters integrated into one team, live blogs became central to the way the site covered major breaking stories. Greatly improved liveblogging software and increased involvement of correspondents from around the world made the Guardian live blogs more respected and even better read.

Source: The Guardian March 21, 2020 08:26 UTC