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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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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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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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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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Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The Good Enough Guide
Oxford: Oxfam (2007), 74 pp.
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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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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Corruption in Emergencies: What Role(s) for Media? Report from U4 Working Meeting 30 May, 2006
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI); Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (U4) (2006), 32 pp.
"As part of a broader analysis of corruption in emergencies, the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre initiated a dialogue on the role(s) of the media. On 30 May 2006, a working meeting held at NORAD offices in Oslo brought together donors, NGOs and journalists, including media practitioners from Sri
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Media's Challenge: Asian Tsunami and Beyond
Deep Insights
"The tsunami demonstrated that modern journalists can do more than just bring unfolding stories to the world. One of the biggest lessons of the tsunami that is unravelling is that the modern journalist can also help to heal communities, rebuild lives, keep families intact and raise funds. The media
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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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The Spectatorship of Suffering
London; Thousand Oaks; New Delhi: Sage (2006), 237 pp.
"This book is about the relationship between the spectators in countries of the west, and the distant sufferer on the television screen; the sufferer in Somalia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, but also from New York and Washington, DC. How do we relate to television images of the distant suf
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"This study breaks the downward communication challenge in post-tsunami Aceh and Sri Lanka into four main areas. The first looks at the nature of communication problems between organisations and communities. The second covers mass information campaigns, including an overview of the information chann
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Behaviour Change Communication in Emergencies: A Toolkit
Kathmandu: UNICEF (2006), 238 pp.
"This toolkit is a resource for everyone working in emergency situations caused by natural disasters. It is designed to help programme managers from UNICEF, UN agencies, NGO partners and government personnel to prepare, plan, implement and monitor behaviour change communication initiatives supportin
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Community-based disaster risk management and the media
Bangkok: Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) (2006), vii, 187 pp.
