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Disaster and Crisis Coverage
Washington, DC: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2009), 59 pp.
Know Disaster, Tell Disaster Risk Reduction: Training Handbook for Media Professionals
Kobe: SEEDS Asia; United Nations, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (2009), 57 pp.
"This handbook will help media practitioners to conceptualize the risks, expand their knowledge on how to incorporate disaster risk reduction in their current programmes, and design and develop appropriate programmes to communicate the risk with their audiences. Efforts were made to ensure that loca
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Periodismo público en la gestión del riesgo
Lima: Comunidad Andina; Proyecto Apoyo a la Prevención de Desastres en la Comunidad Andina (PREDECAN) (2009), 116 pp.
"El texto resalta la necesidad de dejar de culparle a la naturaleza como la responsable de los desastres, y asumir que los riesgos son procesos construidos socialmente. Es decir, que para que el riesgo exista se necesitan fenómenos peligrosos y condiciones de vulnerabilidad que son generadas por lo
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Periodismo y comunicación para la gestión de riesgo en la subregión andina: Discursos periodísticos y perpsectivas para un enfoque prospectivo y preventivo
Folios (Universidad de Antioquia), issue 23 (2008), pp. 105-135
"El presente artículo analiza los discursos periodísticos y la representación de temas claves vinculados a la gestión del riesgo de desastres en cuatro países de la subregión Andina. El estudio se apoya en elementos teóricos de la investigación en medios y periodismo, tales como Agenda Setti
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Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of Mass Media
Deep Insights
Sterling: Kumarian Press (2008), xiv, 335 pp.
"This book takes a unique and comprehensive look at how the international community, led by the US, responded to ten humanitarian crises of the last decade and how major media outlets played a role in influencing (or failing to influence) action. Crises examined include Liberia, East Timor, Somalia,
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Left in the Dark: The Unmet Need for Information in Humanitarian Responses
BBC World Service Trust (2008), 8 pp.
"When crisis or disaster strikes, people need help. They need, shelter, food, water and safety. They need these things rapidly and effectively. Modern humanitarian responses have become more effi cient and effective at providing these things. This policy briefing argues that people need information
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Covering the Tsunami disaster: Subsequent post-traumatic and depressive symptoms and associated social factors
Stress and Health, volume 24, issue 2 (2007), pp. 129-135
"Journalists frequently report on disasters. There is a growing evidence that they are subsequently at higher risk of post-traumatic and depressive symptoms. We conducted an internet-based study with 61 journalists who had covered the tsunami disaster in December 2004 from the affected region. The e
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Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book
Deep Insights
Bangkok; Nugegoda (LK): UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok; Television for Education Asia-Pacific (TVE Asia-Pacific) (2007), x, 150 pp.
"Our 21 contributors -– most of them from Asia, and representing media, development or humanitarian sectors -- do not engage in mere theoretical discussions. In 19 chapters of this book, they draw on their rich and varied experience working in either preparing disaster resilient communities or res
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Global Humanitarianism and the Changing Aid-Media Field: "Everyone Was Dying for Footage"
Journalism Studies, volume 8, issue 6 (2007), pp. 862-878
"The crucial interaction between humanitarian agencies and the media has been researched in the past but today it continues to evolve and change—and not for the better. This article, drawing on accounts from communications managers working inside the world's major aid agencies (Red Cross, Oxfam, S
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Preventive Journalism and Coverage of Risk Situations: A Media Professional's Guide to Avian Influenza
Brasilia: ANDI (2007), 51 pp.
"This publication is intended to serve as a guide to journalists in different media segments on preventive, risk, and crisis communication. Although the focus is on a potential future influenza pandemic in Latin America arising from avian flu, the pages that follow set forth concepts and tools to as
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A Training Manual for Media Workshops on Avian Influenza
Bangkok: UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office; Internews Network (2007), 61 pp.
"This manual provides a methodology for trainers and media support organizations interested in providing courses on the coverage of avian influenza. It also provides a sample three-day training course agenda, complete with suggested lectures, discussion topics, exercises, suggested reading, field tr
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Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The Good Enough Guide
Oxford: Oxfam (2007), 74 pp.
Community Emergency Radio Networks
[author] (2007), vii, 106 pp.
"[This book] gives you ideas for building an emergency radio network (ERN) for your community. An ERN uses small Family Radio Service (FRS) radios or combined FRS/General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) radios for members of the community. The community relay station can be (1) a basic or "fancy" ham st
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Guidelines for OCHA Field Information Management
New York: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2006), ix, 73 pp.
"The objective of OCHA’s new field information management strategy is to increase support to humanitarian actors by improving the capacity for decision making and analysis through strengthened collection, processing, and dissemination of information. This objective will be met by increasing OCHA
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