The Covid-19 pandemic has affected all sectors of life, including the education sector. In order to surppress the spread of the virus, the educational process is carried out by means of online learning, including lectures at universities. Apart from facing many technical barriers, online lectures have an impact on learning methods as well as other broader issues. Yogyakarta relies on regional income from the education sector, particularly on the expenditure of outer regional students. The dilemma between the urgency of re-implementing offline lectures to support economic recovery or prioritizing public health has become an issue that has surfaced in local media coverage. This article explains how the largest local newspaper in Yogyakarta, Kedaulatan Rakyat, framed online lectures during the Covid-19 pandemic in its reporting. Research results show that Kedaulatan Rakyat constructed the news framing of online learning as one of the causes of the regional economic stagnation. Furthermore, the coverage of Kedaulatan Rakyat contains an advocacy narrative which persuades campuses in Yogyakarta to immediately reopen offline learning as a solution to the regional economic stagnation.
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