We are in a period of rapidly changing information and new developments on the local impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus. This massive story—impacting everything from cargo traffic to large-scale events—also comes at a time when there are far fewer journalists on the ground to provide resources and information.

Considering everything happening in our community, our state, our country and other countries, media collaboration matters infinitely more than competition.

With that in mind, the Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal have offered up the free use and republication coronavirus reporting to any other media organization, community organization, civic agency, or educational and non-profit group—no questions asked and no expectations of anything in return.

When we shared our decision with our local media colleagues earlier this week, the response was swift and positive. The Daily 49er at Long Beach State reached out. Southern California Public Radio jumped on the phone with us right away. The Signal-Tribune newspaper partnered with us to rapidly translate and republish reporting in Spanish. The Press-Telegram and Gazette are sharing their own excellent reporting and photojournalism.

This type of rapid partnership and public service is the hallmark of our outstanding local media organizations.

If you’d like to embed or republish any of our coronavirus coverage, please consider the following:

  • You may pull our content directly from our site at staging-live.lbpost.com, or for higher resolution photos or videos, please email managing editor Melissa Evans (melissa@lbpost.com) or Thomas Cordova, the Post visuals editor (thomas@lbpost.com), and we’ll do the best we can to provide what you need.
  • If you use our stories, we ask that the byline include the reporter’s name, with “Long Beach Post” attached in some fashion. At the end of the story, include a line that says “This story (video/photo/graphic) originally appeared in the Long Beach Post.”
  • A link back to https://staging-live.lbpost.com is appreciated but not required.
  • You may, if you chose, use our content like a wire service, editing it how you see fit. Depending on how much of the content is used, either include the reporter’s byline or a tagline at the end indicating they contributed to the article.
  • We’ve maintained a coronavirus live blog since Saturday, March 7, which has links to our current coverage if you’d like to see what we have. One note: Please be mindful that we do on occasion pull reporting from our membership in the Associated Press and City News Service; you would need a subscription from those businesses to use their stories.
  • An RSS feed of all of our Coronavirus coverage is available at https://staging-live.lbpost.com/news/tag/coronavirus/feed
  • We’ve also built a widgetized version of our live blog if you’d like to embed our coverage on your platform. If so, embed this:

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