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This edited volume explores the practices of health and science journalists covering conflicts, displacement, and global pandemics amid evolving media landscapes and new communication technologies. Contributors highlight shared challenges like funding cuts, public mistrust, and online harassment.
List of contents
Chapter One: Health Journalists' Views of Their Work Amid a Pandemic and U.S. Partisan Political Conflict
Maria E. Len-Rios, Amanda Hinnant, and Rachel Young
Chapter Two: Crisis Journalism and Professional Role Conceptions: A Survey of Journalists in Bangladesh
Khairul Islam and Pradeep Sopory
Chapter Three: Fighting COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Africa: Reflections of Journalistic Attitudes in Coverage
Abena Yeboah-Banin, Gilbert Kuuim Muobom Tietaah, Audrey Gadzekpo, Jade Ampomaah Baah, and Daniel Kwame Ampofo Adjei
Chapter Four: Journalists' Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Health and Science News Coverage in Ghana
Gifty Appiah Adjei
Chapter Five: Collaboration is Key: How Rapidly Mobilized Journalist-Researcher Task Forces can Tackle Crisis Communication During a Global Pandemic
Natasha A. Strydhorst, Asheley R. Landrum, Kat Snow, Sue Ellen, Sevda Eris, Scott Burg
Chapter Six: Communicating Health Information to Rural Communities in the 21st Century: Local Journalists as Trusted Messengers
Ch'Ree Essary, Natasha Strydhorst, Javier Morales Riech, Asheley R. Landrum
Chapter Seven: Journalists' Responsibility in Communicating about Public and Corporate Health Crises: Opportunities Afforded by Social Media
Janine Nadine Blessing, Cassandra L.C. Troy, Nicholas Eng, Jin Chen
Chapter Eight: Literacy in Science and Journalism as a Weapon in the Post-truth Era Crisis
Avshalom Ginossar
Chapter Nine: Understanding Climate Journalism in Pakistan
Shabir Hussain and Jamal Ud Din
About the author
Sayyed Fawad Ali Shah is assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Auburn University.
Tamar Ginossar is professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism and the BA/MD Program at the University of New Mexico.
