"I was sobbing hysterically. The rug had literally been pulled out from under my feet. I was falling and I didn't know where I was going to land.
It’s a terrifying situation." That’s young journalist Rebecca Laffan describing the sense of shock and helplessness she felt when she lost her job at the Limerick Leader newspaper last month.
The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the media industry into crisis. Rebecca is just one of thousands of journalists to lose their jobs around the world.
Others will suffer a similar fate. Some news organisations will not survive this crisis. The sudden sharp shock to the global economy led to an immediate collapse in advertising revenue that most news organisations are dependent on to stay in business.