This is a special presentation of APs Ground Game: Inside The Outbreak. State and local officials are receiving high marks for how they’ve been handling the coronavirus outbreak, less so for President Donald Trump and the federal government. AP Washington Bureau Chief Julie Pace and Director of Public Opinion Research Emily Swanson explain what this means based on several recent surveys done by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. You can listen and subscribe to all episodes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ap-ground-game-inside-the-outbreak/id1399328854

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AP Ground Game: Inside The Poll Numbers

This is a special presentation of APs Ground Game: Inside The Outbreak. The coronavirus pandemic continues to take a devastating toll on The United Sates economy, with over 6 million Americans filing for unemployment. The disruptions due to coronavirus are causing a ripple effect, trickling into the day-to-day lives of people across the globe. AP National Writer and Director of Digital Innovation, Ted Anthony, has been covering the ripple effect of the virus and breaks it all down for us on this episode of Ground Game. You can listen and subscribe to all episodes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ap-ground-game-inside-the-outbreak/id1399328854

AP Ground Game: Inside The Ripple Effect

This is a special presentation of APs Ground Game: Inside The Outbreak. Spain has been hit especially hard by the coronavirus outbreak and the country’s death toll remains comparatively high despite a two-week lockdown. With more than 9,000 COVID-19 deaths documented, officials have been forced to convert hotels into hospitals and ice rinks into morgues. Madrid-based AP reporter Aritz Parra explains what is happening inside Spain’s overburdened medical facilities and funeral homes. You can listen and subscribe to all episodes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ap-ground-game-inside-the-outbreak/id1399328854

AP Ground Game: Inside Madrid, Spain

This is a special presentation of APs Ground Game: Inside The Outbreak. New York has been hit especially hard in the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 75,000 cases confirmed so far. In New York and elsewhere, health officials are reviewing guidelines from sources including state governments and medical groups on how to fairly ration limited resources as hospitals prepare for a surge in patients. Central to these guidelines will be figuring out who gets a ventilator and who doesn’t. AP reporter Candice Choi explains what this all means. You can listen and subscribe to all episodes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ap-ground-game-inside-the-outbreak/id1399328854

AP Ground Game: Inside The Epicenter

This week's episode is a fond look back and a hopeful look into our future: traveling to watch baseball. AP Baseball Writer Ben Walker gives us an up close look at visiting spring training camps, and Digital Innovation Director Ted Anthony tells us why he's spent so much time bringing his family to minor league ballparks. On My Favorite Trip, former Top Gear co-host James May gives us an insight into some of the things he found fascinating in Japan during three months in the country last year for an Amazon Prime travelogue.

Once and Future Baseball

This is a special presentation of APs Ground Game: Inside The Outbreak - Inside Rural America In rural towns and already isolated communities across the country, the concerns about the coronavirus outbreak range from outsiders bringing the virus with them from bigger cities to economies that normally rely on tourism grinding to a halt. AP Reporter Gillian Flaccus takes us inside rural Oregon to discuss how the pandemic is playing out there. You can listen and subscribe here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ap-ground-game-inside-the-outbreak/id1399328854

Bonus: AP Ground Game: Inside The Outbreak - Inside Rural America

Former Associated Press Moscow correspondent Andy Katell talks about his travels in Russia as a journalist and a tourist, taking the cover off a vast country largely unknown to Americans. In lieu of My Favorite Trip this week, Andy previews his seminar on sorting real information from fake news in a time of pandemic.

The Russophile

The Covid-19 restrictions on travel have turned the industry upside down and forced us to rethink what travel is all about. That's in the long term. In the short term, what are we supposed to do about getting refunds for what we've already booked? And when is it appropriate to start booking again? To answer those and other questions, we've called on Melanie Lieberman, travel editor at The Points Guy. And on My Favorite Trip, AP sports columnist Jim Litke recalls two of his favorite baseball assignments.

Thinking About Travel in a Time of Quarantine

Elaine Sciolino takes us on a trip along what she considers the most romantic river in the world, from its source in Burgundy, through Paris and to the ocean at Le Havre. Sciolino, a former New York Times Paris bureau chief, is the author of The Seine: The River that Made Paris. And on My Favorite Trip: award winning fashion designer Prabal Gurung tells us why he loves New York.

The Romance of the Seine

The new coronavirus has turned the travel business upside down,. with quarantined cities and towns, postponed and canceled conferences and public events and uncertainty. A lot of uncertainty. Johanna Read (www.traveleater.net), a travel writer whose piece for Fodor's Travel is called Should You Change Your Travel Plans Due to the Coronavirus?, brings us up to date. And on My Favorite Trip, writer and photographer Susan Portnoy (www.insatiabletraveler.com) takes us to Antarctica and the Falkand Islands.

(Don't) Get Outta Here? Travel and COVID-19

Even as streaming services cut into movie theater attendance, the number of film festivals around the world is exploding. There are now more than three thousand around the world, from the famous -- Cannes, Sundance and New York -- to the lesser-known -- the DC Black film festival in Washington, for example, and the film festival in Wroclaw, Poland. Our guide to visiting film festivals is Jake Coyle, who's been writing about movies at the AP for a decade. And on My Favorite Trip, actress Lucy Hale ("Katy Keene") talks about location filming in Fiji for "Fantasy Island."

The Film Festival Experience

Some commentators refer to it as the rise of Dark Tourism: the desire to visit places that played significant roles in disasters or evil acts. The history of slavery fits uneasily into that category. Uneasily, not because human ownership and forced labor aren't evil, but because visits to slavery sites are usually an attempt to educate, or grapple with a dark past. This week, Associated Press correspondent Russell Contreras takes us to slavery museums in Liverpool, England and Lagos, Portugal. And on My Favorite Trip: former AP travel editor Beth Harpaz recounts some of the singular joys of New Mexico.

Slavery Tourism

Travel writer and former Get Outta Here host Beth Harpaz went to Nebraska to watch hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes linger at their rest stop on the North Platte River, and she can't stop thinking about it. She stops by to tell us why. And on My Favorite Trip: a woman raised in New Jersey reflects on a childhood visit to her grandmother's place in still legally segregated South Carolina in 1962.

A Can't-Miss Birding Expedition

A visit to San Miguel de Allende, a Mexican town with a rich cultural and architectural history and a vibrant artistic and international present. And on My Favorite Trip, Hall of Fame pastelist Richard McKinley takes time from leading a nine-day workshop to recall a painting trip to Provence.

Painters' Paradise in Mexico

The novelist John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden) was a giant of American literature and a peripatetic traveler. He also wrote one of the most charming of travel books, Travels with Charley, about a journey he took with his dog in 1960 to reacquaint himself with the country he was famous for describing. Steinbeck's widow Elaine accompanied him on most of his travels in the 18 years of their marriage. She was a prolific letter writer all of her adult life, and her letters and snapshots of their trips comprise the heart of a Steinbeck auction scheduled for February 27th in New Jersey. Our guide for this dive into Steinbeckiana is Charlie Potters, a consulting archivist for the auction house Curated Estates. And on My Favorite Trip: more Steinbeck. A couple of excerpts from Travels with Charley.

Travels with Charley(s)

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