(CNN) It is hard to imagine any newsroom in America where in recent weeks the pressure is more intense than it has been in the newsroom of The Seattle Times. if you're local reporter, a sports reporter, a features or entertainment writer, your beat focuses on or touches on coronavirus. That's the mandate for the paper's roughly 155-member newsroom, according to the paper's executive editor Michele Matassa Flores. "The story is so big in Seattle and in the region that there's isn't a lot else. There's only one other type of story that a newspaper would be covering that's akin to the experience faced today by those working at The Seattle Times covering the coronavirus.That's war.

Source: CNN March 15, 2020 14:15 UTC