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Glenda Cooper 23 rd ALNAP Biannual Meeting 4th June 2008. After the wave: reporting disasters since the tsunami. Reporting disasters:. How citizen journalism is altering disaster reporting How this, in turn, alters the cosy relationship between journalists and aid workers - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Glenda Cooper23rd ALNAP Biannual Meeting4th June 2008
After the wave: reporting disasters since the tsunami
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Reporting disasters:
How citizen journalism is altering disaster reporting
How this, in turn, alters the cosy relationship between journalists and aid workers
Why this matters: how media coverage affects aid
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“ It was like the entire world was suddenly spinning and rattling. I was so scared that I ran out.. not realising I did not even have any shoes on. … May Allah have mercy on all of us.”
Source: BBC
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UGC and the
In 2005, the BBC received 300 emails per day from the public
Now it receives 12-15,000 per day
Photos/videos have gone from 100 a week to 1,000
Source: BBC
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Africa: the mobile revolution A quarter of a billion
people now have a mobile here
Mobile phone usage has gone from 1 in 50 to a third of the population
£25bn is being invested in mobile phone coverage
Source: UNITU, GSMA
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Accessing BBC via mobile phones
1. England
2. United States
3. Canada
4. Kenya 5. South Africa
6. Nigeria
7. Tanzania
8. Uganda
9. Norway
10. Ireland
Source: BBC
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Key Ingredients for a Disaster
Starving child (preferably crying) Feeding centre (complete with mothers with
shrunken breasts) Aid worker (usually a white woman, battling
against the odds) Reporter (breathless and shocked, saying how
awful it is)Source: Dispatches from Disaster Zones, 27 May 1998
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The Observer
In starvation's gripTim Judah in Cachembe, Mozambique, Dominic Nutt in Malawi and Peter Beaumont in LondonAs the sun set over the village of Mulomba in Malawi last week, a group of women and girls strolled over to a cluster of shacks. Traders were packing up their wares and the evening's entertainment was about to begin. Music floated from inside the rooms at the village's edge, where men were dancing and drinking a home-brewed maize beer. It was only 5pm but already there was a sense of excitement, and danger, in the air.Source: The Observer 9 June 2002
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Tsunami death toll
Dead/Missing Number of stories 19.12.04 -16.01.05
Indonesia 167,000 343
Sri Lanka 35,000 729
Thailand 8,200 771
Sources: UN Office of the Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery & Lexis Nexis
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How coverage affects donationsTV coverage (minutes of airtime)
Print media coverage (articles)
Amount of donation per person helped (US$)
Tsunami 250 34,992 1,241
South Asia Quake86 n.a. 300
Democratic Republic of Congo
6 3,119 213
Somalia 0 n.a. 53
Cote d’Ivoire 0 n.a. 27
Source: World Disasters Report 2006
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The Niger Crisis, 2005
May 16th - UN launch $16m appeal for Niger
July 14th - Only $3.6m raised so farJuly 18th - BBC starts reports on NigerJuly 27th - $17m raised in and outside UN
Source: World Disasters Report 2006