Martin Scott ; Kate Wright ; Mel Bunce

2018
University of East Anglia

Abstract: Humanitarian journalism plays a crucial role in how citizens, aid workers and international organisations around the world respond to emergencies and human suffering. Research on this journalism has tended to focus on establishing which topics and crises receive the most and least coverage. But there are many other matters to be taken into account.

Keyword(s): journalism ; Citizens ; media coverage ; Humanitarian ; Conflicts ; natural disasters ; audience ; Aid ; Public Opinion