Faces in the news: Network television news coverage of Hurricane Hugo and the Loma Prieta earthquake

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 1993

Publication Title

Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Volume

57

Issue

2

Abstract

This study investigates the sourcing patterns characteristic of network television coverage of two natural disasters occurring within weeks of each other in the fall of 1989, Hurricane Hugo and the Loma Prieta earthquake. These results are compared to those from an earlier study of newspaper coverage of the same two events to make possible a cross-disaster, cross-media analysis of the way source utilization contributes to the social construction of disasters as news events

Keywords

Disasters – Press coverage; Mass media; Natural disasters – Press coverage

Disciplines

Broadcast and Video Studies | Communication | Journalism Studies | Mass Communication

Language

English

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