News Coverage of Global Disasters - Journalism''s Power to Aid Healing and Recovery

News Coverage of Global Disasters: Journalism's Power to Aid Healing and Recovery analyzes news from eight natural disasters, demonstrating how news potentially aided readers. Ten news themes that promote healing, hope and recovery were found across the local and international news sources, providing some evidence of a common journalistic culture.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Tragedies and journalism
Chapter 3: Journalism culture
Chapter 4: Patterns and influences on news about natural disasters
Chapter 5: Survivor stories
Chapter 6: Death stories
Chapter 7: Selfless behavior
Chapter 8: Recovery efforts
Chapter 9: Community, cohesion and intimacy
Chapter 10: Faith, belief and salvation
Chapter 11: Reassurance, purpose or meaning
Chapter 12: Actions
Chapter 13: Blame, responsibility
Chapter 14: External validation
Chapter 15: Country analysis
Chapter 16: Conclusions

About the author

Michael McCluskey is professor in the department of communication at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.

Product details

• Authors: Michael McCluskey, McCluskey Michael
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781793625366
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-536-6
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Press & journalism, News media & journalism, Communication Studies, Media studies: Journalism, community;journalism;Natural Disasters;trauma