NewsMaker started to inform about COVID-19 long before the first case of the disease in Moldova. As soon as the virus started spreading in our country, we created a new section on the site called “Coronavirus outbreak in Moldova” and a graph on the main page of the website with official data on the topic. NewsMaker has obligations in different thematic projects, but as a reliable media, we also have to inform our audience on the current situation. Majority of our work became oriented to it. At the same time, we continue to manage our obligations, so we started to work two times more. Before our news department worked from 8AM to 8PM and now from 8AM to 11PM. The project is intended to help NewsMaker cover the COVID-19 situation and its consequences in Russian and Romanian languages on its website and social media pages. Daily news and texts will be published and content for social media pages created (images, graphs, short informational messages). With the help of this project NewsMaker will cover the additional working hours of news reporters, journalists and social media manager that are mainly occupied with the coronavirus topic.The expected result is the raised awareness about the COVID-19 situation and its consequences among NewsMaker's readers. The produced content will be available for hundreds of thousands of users on our website and for approx. 82K followers on Facebook (in the first week of April we had 450K post reach). Russian language audiences, that have limited access to official and fact based information in their native language, will find it on newsmaker.md. The project will permit the organization to continue its work during the COVID-19 crises and its possible consequences. The news and texts on the topic will bring new audiences to our website which in future will grow our presence on the Moldavian media market. 

Activity 1. NewsMaker will daily inform in Russian and Romanian languages on the COVID-19 situation, its consequences and impact on all aspects of life in different formats. Through this activity we will continue to write correct and fact based news and other texts about the situation in Moldova. NewsMaker will also expose fake information and analyze different developments about the Covid-19 and its consequences on Moldavian economics, politics and people’s lives. We will create content specially for NewsMaker’s social media pages (images, graphs, short informational messages) and all the website materials will be distributed among them.  Activity 2. NewsMaker will create 7 interviews/stories about businessmen about how businesses survive and change in a crisis, quarantine and epidemic. Possible heroes are both well-known businessmen and less well-known characters from the Moldovan business, but with interesting cases, stories, and experience. The stories of those who perceive the crisis not as a reason to sit down, give up and whine, but as an opportunity for growth, development, and the launch of something new.