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Local newspapers and coronavirus: conceptualising connections, comparisons and cures
Media International Australia ( IF 2.441 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 , DOI: 10.1177/1329878x20956455
Kristy Hess 1 , Lisa Jane Waller 2
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Within weeks of the nation-wide COVID-19 shutdown, more than 200 regional and community newspapers across Australia announced they could no longer keep their presses running due to the unprecedented crisis. A drain in advertising spend, a broken business model and the refusal of digital behemoths to pay for content were blamed for their collapse, ironically as audiences’ demand for credible news and information soared across the globe. There is no doubt the COVID-19 crisis has widened existing, deep cracks in the news media industry. In response this article sets out to explore possible solutions and strategies for local newspapers in the post-pandemic media landscape. We take an analogical approach to argue some of the issues that emerged during COVID-19 and strategies used to fight the global health pandemic also present valuable lessons for the preservation of public interest journalism and news at the local level. We conceptualise five coronavirus-related themes that resonate with a much-needed innovations agenda for local newspapers in Australia: (1) support for essential services, (2) warnings of complacency against an evolving biological threat, (3) appreciating the power of the social (4) coordinated government/policy responses and (5) ‘we are all in this together’.

中文翻译:

当地报纸和冠状病毒:概念化联系、比较和治疗

在全国范围内的 COVID-19 关闭后的几周内,澳大利亚 200 多家地区和社区报纸宣布,由于前所未有的危机,他们无法再继续运营。具有讽刺意味的是,随着全球观众对可靠新闻和信息的需求激增,广告支出的减少、商业模式的破碎以及数字巨头拒绝为内容付费被归咎于他们的崩溃。毫无疑问,COVID-19 危机扩大了新闻媒体行业现有的深层裂缝。作为回应,本文着手探索大流行后媒体环境中当地报纸的可能解决方案和策略。我们采用类比的方法来论证 COVID-19 期间出现的一些问题,用于抗击全球健康大流行的策略也为在地方一级保护公共利益新闻和新闻提供了宝贵的经验教训。我们构思了五个与冠状病毒相关的主题,这些主题与澳大利亚当地报纸急需的创新议程产生共鸣:(1) 支持基本服务,(2) 对不断演变的生物威胁的自满警告,(3) 欣赏社会 (4) 协调的政府/政策响应和 (5) “我们都在一起”。
更新日期:2020-09-09
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