Angela Looney’s Spring 2020 Multimedia News Production class has been very busy creating news packages that would have aired on Iowa City’s Daily Iowan Television (DITV) if they were producing a daily newscast as usual. However, since COVID-19 has forced social distancing and school to move online, the class has found interesting ways to produce news stories from home.

Journalism students are taking one day at a time and making the best of it. We asked students to write about their personal experience with the transition to online courses during the COVID-19 pandemic.