From a Times Insider column by Mathew Brownstein headlined “A ‘Plain-Spoken’ Way to Share Our Location”:

On April 14, 1912, a reporter sent a dispatch from HALIFAX, N.S. with breaking news: The White Star liner Titanic had struck an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast and was sinking. In 1926, a journalist wrote an article from the NORTH POLE for the first time. And in January 2020, New York Times journalists reported on a deadly new contagion — the coronavirus — from WUHAN, China.