Sunday, September 18, 2011

Disaster Reporting

Perkins, Jay and Izard, Ralph.  Covering Disaster: Lessons from Media Coverage of Katrina and Rita  Piscataway:Transaction Publishers (2011). 

Singer, Eleanor and Endreny, Phyllis M.  Reporting on Risk: How the Mass Media Portray Accidents, Diseases, Disasters, and other Hazards.    New York: Russel Sage Foundation (1993).

Benthall, Jonathan.  Disasters, Relief, and the Media  New York: I.B. Tauris (1994).
 

Cottle, Simon.  Global Crisis Reporting  Open University Press (2008). 

Smolkin, Rachel.  "Off the Sidelines" American Journalism Review Dec./Jan. 2006.

Classen, Steve “Reporters Gone Wild: Reporters and their critics on Hurricane Katrina, gender, race, and place.” E-Media Studies 2.1: 2009. 

Haddow, Kim S and Haddow, George Disaster Communications in a Changing Media World  Maryland Heights: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2008.

Wilkings, Lee; Steffens, Martha; Thornson, Esther, and Greeley, Kyle Reporting Disaster on Deadline    Routledge, 2012. 

Benthall, Jonathan Disasters, Relief, and the Media Wantage:Sean Kingston Publishing, 2010. 

Rogers, Everett M. Disasters and the Mass Media National Academy of Sciences, 1980. 

Anderson, Lisa.   “The Dangers of Disaster Reporting.” Columbia Journalism Review 06 Nov. 2009.

Ash, Rebeccah L. “Disaster Reporting and Sensationalism: New York Times Coverage of Y2K” http://www.angelfire.com/journal/worldtour99/y2k.html

Disaster Through a Different Lens (UN Guidebook for Disaster Reporting)


Possible Topics:

How corporations control media access and the flow of information in the aftermath of a disaster (Chernobyl, Bhopal, BP Spill)

The responsibility of journalists to remain neutral vs. the human need to intervene in a crisis

How disaster coverage affects journalists themselves

How governments control the media in times of a crisis 

Disaster Myths-how rumors are spread in the early stages of a disaster

How social media has changed disaster reporting

How the media creates disasters that don’t exist (Y2K)


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