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Â鶹¹ÙÍø Anchor Kyle Cooper runs the on-air studio board, playing all of the elements that one of the midday anchors who is working from home cannot, such as sounders, live interviews and commercials. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Depending on the shift, a skeleton crew remains at Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s studios. Seen in these photos are Assistant Editor Andrea Cambron, Afternoon Drive Editor Mike Jakaitis, Midday Editor Joslyn Chesson and Midday Anchor Mark Lewis. Since this photo of Lewis was taken, he now works from home. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Morning Drive Anchor Bruce Alan, seen here updating listeners with the latest news and information on the coronavirus pandemic, continues to come into the studios. He uses his face mask when he isn’t broadcasting. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Morning Drive Anchor Joan Jones is one of Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s familiar voices who is working remotely. She has retrofitted a closet. She communicates with her editor back at the studio by cellphone and an intercom system. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Joan Jones)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Anchor Debra Feinstein works out of her closet using a remote access unit, her computer and cellphone. Back at the studio, another staffer pushes buttons that ensure traffic, weather, sports, business and a host of other things get on the air. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Debra Feinstein)

One of the new things inside the Â鶹¹ÙÍø newsroom is the hand sanitizer dispenser. In addition to people sitting farther apart, those in the newsroom are constantly sanitizing. Â鶹¹ÙÍø Afternoon Anchor Shawn Anderson is seen here. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Afternoon Anchor Hillary Howard prepares to broadcast live from her home. She said she is grateful to colleague Â鶹¹ÙÍø Reporter/Anchor Mike Murillo for his help in setting up her work-from-home studio. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Hillary Howard)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø continues to provide the news, traffic and weather information you depend on, but we’ve had to make some adjustments to how we operate due to the coronavirus pandemic. The majority of our staffers currently work from home — including much of the web team, whose section of the office stands empty. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Before the coronavirus, many of these Â鶹¹ÙÍø newsroom workstations would be shared by people working different shifts. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Many Â鶹¹ÙÍø staffers, such as Business Reporter Jeff Clabaugh, Storm Team4 Meteorologist Matt Ritter, Reporter/Anchor Mike Murillo and Digital Editor Will Vitka, have slight variations of their work-from-home setups. Murillo was the first anchor to broadcast from home. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s Megan Cloherty works with her nephew on her lap. She finds working from home challenging. “Before the pandemic, I was accustomed to filing from the field. But working from home is a totally different animal. In our house, we are balancing childcare and trying to work around each other’s work demands. I’ve had to get used to watching press conferences on a live stream and calling in to ask my questions on a delay. We are getting a lot of great stories from community members who are sharing their new normal – what’s working and what’s not. It has been fun to break out of crime and courts reporting for a bit and tell different stories,” she writes in an email. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Megan Cloherty)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø reporters, including Kristi King, work from home. The cushions and other items facing Kristi are used when she goes live on the air and when she records. If not for these creative sound barriers, King would sound hollow or like she was speaking from inside a “tin can.” (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Kristi King)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø General Manager and Senior Vice President Joel Oxley speaks during a March 27 staff meeting, held over a conference call. Not seen in the photo is an intercom where staff members call in so they can talk with their co-workers and hear what’s going on in the newsroom. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Colleen Kelleher)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Director of News and Programming Julia Ziegler, seen here in her office participating in a conference call, comes into the office most days. Managers — Darci Marchese, Jared Ruderman and Pat Brogan — sometimes work at home and sometimes work in the office. Craig Schwalb, Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s new Director of Content Integration and Operations, has yet to meet the staff in person. He just moved here from the New York City area. For the first couple of weeks of his new job, Schwalb worked remotely, answering listener emails from what was jokingly known among the managers as the “Princeton Junction bureau.” (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Senior Digital Editor Colleen Kelleher typically does not work in an actual office, but she filled in for her recently promoted boss, Digital News Director Sarah Beth Hensley, who has been on maternity leave since February. Hensley returned to work April 14. Kelleher, who has been at Â鶹¹ÙÍø coordinating how to cover the pandemic and other stories online as well as cross-training Matt Small to work on Â鶹¹ÙÍø.com, returned to her normal early morning web editing shift when Hensley returned. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Writer Brandon Millman, is part of the skeleton crew still working in the Â鶹¹ÙÍø newsroom. In addition to writing for the morning drive anchors, Millman has been doing some in-house reporting and running the on-air studio board for anchors broadcasting from home. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Writer/Digital Editor Jack Pointer divides his time during the week either writing for the afternoon drive anchors from his sofa or writing and editing web articles. His dog Matilda is bored with having him around so much. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Jack Pointer)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Assistant Editor Adisa Hargett-Robinson wears a face mask and gloves as she prepares material for air. Hargett-Robinson started with Â鶹¹ÙÍø in March, just as coronavirus really started to become a problem locally. She has not known what it is like to work in the newsroom in precoronavirus conditions. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Assistant Editor Alicia Abelson, seen here wearing a face mask, coordinates with colleagues working in the newsroom and at home. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Traffic Reporter Jack Taylor said he finds it “super cool” to realize all of his old home equipment would allow him to broadcast live remotely, with the addition of new software. What he does not have is screens showing dozens of streaming cameras. Taylor said what he has really missing is “the co-workers, my traffic team, teamwork in one room. I love it from home but interaction! Please personal interactions!” he wrote in an email. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Jack Taylor)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Traffic Reporter Mary DePompa answers a call to the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Traffic Center from her home studio. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Mary DePompa)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Traffic Reporter Reada Kessler, seen here in the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Traffic Center, prepares to update listeners on road conditions. She wears her face mask when not broadcasting. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø Traffic Reporter Rob Stallworth, seen here wearing a face mask, updates the latest traffic information. Someone is always in the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Traffic Center. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Jacob Kerr works on editing audio in operations. He takes in audio from reporters, weather and various networks. Should an Emergency Alert System message need to go out, Kerr is ready to handle it. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Chris Cichon also works in operations, but is doing it from home. He also does weekend sports from home. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Chris Cichon)

Each studio undergoes a detailed cleaning before another anchor gets behind the microphone. Â鶹¹ÙÍø Technical Operations/Engineering Assistant Zach Shore, seen here cleaning the main studio, comes into work to help troubleshoot any number of problems that can arise in-house and off-site. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

People still working in the Â鶹¹ÙÍø newsroom clean their areas before and after each shift with what’s been dubbed the “corona cleaner.” (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

It takes a large stock of cleaning supplies, some of it seen here, to keep Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s “24/7-365” news operation humming. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)

Â鶹¹ÙÍø no longer lets employees bring in food to share with their co-workers, something that was very common before the pandemic. For those still coming in, a refrigerator and freezer are stocked with healthy foods. And, then there’s a good bit of junk food to keep everybody happy. (Â鶹¹ÙÍø/Matt Small)