Introduction to Business and Technical Communication and COVID-19: Communicating in Times of Crisis.

This issue required authors to complete final articles by mid-June 2020, so they were writing them while the pandemic continued to spread. The articles range from engagement with rural communities to social media verification systems to the World Health Organization's attempts to communicate the pandemic across multiple languages in Africa. These topics have become even more important as the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented public engagement with data. [Extracted from the article]