Joe Crescente discusses promoting media literacy and living in Moscow during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Crescente reports on life and media literacy in Moscow, where he has been living off and on for the past several years. Joe discusses day-to-day life in Moscow during the COVID-19 epidemic, changes he has observed, and how we need to become especially critical consumers of media. About Joe Crescente: Joe is a writer, teacher, and media literacy specialist. He holds MA degrees from Indiana University’s Russian and East European Institute (2007), New York University’s Department of Anthropology (2010), and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst where he completed an MFA in Creative Writing-Fiction (2019). A former editor and journalist, he is currently serving as the Media Literacy Fellow at the American Center in Moscow where he holds seminars and workshops on topics ranging from confirmation bias and fact-checking to data privacy and media consumption habits. He is currently querying his first novel and is at work on his second. You can find him at https://www.joecrescente.com