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Reporting disaster on deadline : a handbook for students and professionals / Marty Steffens. [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disasters--Press coverage--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Disasters.
- Broadcast journalism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Broadcast journalism.
- Television broadcasting of news--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Television broadcasting of news.
- Journalistic ethics--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Journalistic ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (146 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides an introduction to covering crises, considering practice issues and providing guidance in preparing for and responding to calamities. It offers a concise overview for journalism academics and practitioners of covering disasters - not a ""how to"" handbook but a ""how to prepare"" reference to be used before a crisis occurs. This essential resource is among the first to focus specifically and comprehensively on journalistic coverage of disasters. It demonstrates the application of scholarship and theory to professional practice, and includes a crash book template wi
- Contents:
- Covering disasters without becoming one / Marty Steffens
- What's probable and what's possible: what the emergency community knows and what the journalists don't / Fred Vultee and Lee Wilkins
- Terrorism: disasters that communicate / Fred Vultee
- The crash book: manual for competitive coverage? schematic for public service / Kent Collins and Greeley Kyle
- The quality of disaster news: frames, disaster stages, and a public health Focus / Esther Thorson
- The frontline in our backyard: journalists as first responders / Greeley Kyle
- Covering consumer issues: from scams to preparedness / Marty Steffens
- More than just a victim: citizen journalism and disasters / Marty Steffens
- Roles and goals: doing ethics to avoid journalistic disasters / Lee Wilkins
- Conclusions: the social impact of better journalism / Lee Wilkins.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-51395-7
- 1-283-58503-0
- 9786613897480
- 0-203-14886-X
- 1-136-51396-5
- 9780203148860
- OCLC:
- 810082478
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