ENR COVID-19 Coverage Ramps Up

Jan Tuchman — Tuchman interviewed the Army Corps’ Semonite at the Javits-to-hospital conversion.

*PHOTO: JEFF RUBENSTONE*

News Director Pam Russell is leading coverage from New Orleans.

*PHOTO: RICHARD RUSSELL*

Justin Rice with daughter Naomi, covers the New England and MidAtlantic regions from Boston.

*PHOTO: ERICA RICE*

Jeff Yoders, who covers the Midwest from Chicago, got a selfie with Sebastian.

*PHOTO: JEFF YODERS*

From the hundreds of thousands of page views on ENR.com, we know readers are on a quest to understand the rapidly changing situations they face during the COVID-19 emergency. One reader, Doug Storer, a build-tech innovator, emailed us: “Throughout my 30-year construction career, ENR has been a guiding light through good times and bad.”

That is our goal. We want to be part of the answer. Our editors around the country, many of whom work from home offices anyway, rolled into action (juggling kids, cats and computers) to rev up our daily news coverage about the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the global construction industry. We’ve been posting the news as we report it—more than 70 stories over the past two weeks, which has attracted four times the article views that we are accustomed to seeing.

We launched a COVID-19 and Construction newsletter that aggregates our free web stories on the topic. Visitors who sign up for it can access those articles and share the newsletter with employees, colleagues, partners, clients and suppliers.

We rescheduled our Newsmaker Awards luncheon, Award of Excellence Gala and Best of the Best Projects Awards Breakfast for Aug. 4-5 in New York City. Groundbreaking Women in Construction is now planned for Aug. 24-25, and FutureTech is planned for Oct. 14-16—both of which will be in San Francisco.

We also want to remind ENR print subscribers that whenever you are away from your delivery location—working at home in an emergency or on future travel—the latest curated issue in magazine format is available digitally on ENR.com, along with an archive of digital editions going back to 2016. The digital editions are under the “More” tab on the navigation bar.

By Janice L. Tuchman
Editor-in-Chief

After serving as editor-in-chief for 20 years, Jan Tuchman was former executive editor, leading content development for Engineering News-Record's wide-ranging series of live and virtual events. These include the Groundbreaking Women in Construction, the Emerging Leaders Forum, FutureTech and infrastructure forums in the New York/New Jersey region and Los Angeles. Tuchman is the 2023-24 chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers Industry Leaders Council, she is a member of the Columbia University Center for Infrastructure, Facilities and Public Spaces, and she is active in The Moles, a heavy construction leadership organization. Her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism are from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Industry honors include the Ted C. Kennedy Award from the National Academy of Construction and the service and supply award from the Beavers. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and enjoys singing in the Brooklyn Community Chorus.

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