ITV News Central: Covering the coronavirus pandemic

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Friday 12 June 2020 at 9:00am

We take you 'behind the scenes' to show the changes our journalists and technical teams have made, to bring you the news. Credit: ITV News Central

ITV News has released a special film to show how it covered the Covid-19 crisis and how viewers have reacted to the service provided.

Presented by Julie Etchingham, and produced by the award-winning Tonight programme production team, it captures work done by the national and regional teams across the country.

During lockdown ITV News attracted big audiences.

In the period from 23rd March to the last day of May, ITV News and Current Affairs programmes reached 44 million people, that's 72 per cent of the UK population.

Director of News and Current Affairs, Michael Jermey, said:

You can watch the full film here:

How ITV News is doing things differently to still bring you the news during the coronavirus outbreak