Reporting Disaster on Deadline A Handbook for Students and Professionals [Paperback]

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 with logistical and information-collection requirements.

As a text for advanced reporting, broadcast journalism, and journalism ethics, or a reference for professionals, Reporting Disaster on Deadline provides key information for keeping on deadline in responding to crises.

 Covering disasters without becoming one     --   Marty Steffens

Whats Probable and Whats Possible: What the Emergency Community Knows and What the Journalists Dont --  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 impacl8