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Table of 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.

Contributors:

Steffens, Marty

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Disasters — Press coverage — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Broadcast journalism — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Television broadcasting of news — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Journalistic ethics — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Disasters — Press coverage

Disasters

Broadcast journalism

Television broadcasting of news

Journalistic ethics

Genres:

Handbooks and manuals

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 141 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN4784.D57 R48 2012eb

ISBNs:

9780415990967 [Invalid]
9780805861662 [Invalid]
9780203148860 (electronic bk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2011051398 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

810082478

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1016032 (source: MiAaPQ)
EBL1016032 (source: Au-PeEL)
ebr10596229 (source: CaPaEBR)
MIL389748 (source: CaONFJC)