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cord-031700-xxku8q1f	Hess, Kristy	Local newspapers and coronavirus: conceptualising connections, comparisons and cures	2020-09-09		.txt	text/plain	7612	322	43	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'. As researchers working on a project that will gauge the civic value of Australia's country press and develop an innovation model for the sector, 1 we have made the case for an approach to media innovation that does not simply reinforce the 'crisis' discourse (Hess and Waller, 2020) or pin small newspaper closures like butterflies to a Google map of pandemic despair (see https://piji.com.au).	./cache/cord-031700-xxku8q1f.txt	./txt/cord-031700-xxku8q1f.txt