| Disasters are changing rapidly and so are disaster communications |
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1 The changing media world |
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Causes and consequences of the changing media world |
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A case in point: COVID and the spread of misinformation |
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18 | (1) |
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18 | (3) |
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2 Communications revolutions and today's news consumption and production trends |
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Communication innovations lead to profound change |
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Where do Americans get their news? |
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24 | (2) |
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Mobile phone ownership over time |
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Social media use over time |
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Demographic profiles and party of regular social media news users in the United States |
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Time adults spend on media continues to climb |
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How the media covers disasters: three fundamentals |
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3 Technology is driving changes in disaster communications |
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Social media and the public |
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Social media in the newsroom |
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Social media and disaster communications |
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Social media features designed for use during disasters |
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New and old technologies that support disaster communications |
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44 | (7) |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (3) |
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4 Disaster coverage past and present |
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How did this evolution occur? |
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New tools and new technologies profoundly change how disasters are covered---and who covers them |
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56 | (1) |
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The emergence of social media as a disaster communications tool |
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57 | (1) |
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The London transit bombings (2005) |
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58 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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California Wildfires (2007) |
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Virginia Tech Shootings (2007) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) Shootings (2008) |
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Myanmar cyclone and China's Sichuan Earthquake (2008) |
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60 | (1) |
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61 | (1) |
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Tuscaloosa and Joplin Tornados (2011) |
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61 | (1) |
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62 | (1) |
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Boston Marathon Bombings (2013) |
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Western Drought (2013--22) |
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66 | (3) |
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69 | (2) |
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71 | (1) |
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5 Communications: The critical function |
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Fundamentals of a successful communications strategy |
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Fundamental: build communications partnerships |
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Identify trusted community leaders who can facilitate communications in disadvantaged neighborhoods |
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Work with all media---traditional and social |
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Fundamental: invest in communications staff, training, and technology |
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Hire and maintain professional staff |
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Invest in ongoing training for staff |
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Invest resources in communications |
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Bring communications staff to the table |
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Run all decisions through the communications filter |
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84 | (1) |
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Develop communication strategies to support operations |
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Create communications strategies to promote plans |
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Secure media training for yourself and staff |
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Fundamental: collect and analyze information to gain situational awareness |
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Invest in information collection |
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Invest in information management |
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Use only confirmed information |
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Make decisions based on good information |
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Fundamental: deliver timely and accurate information |
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Work on your audience's schedule and not your own |
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Recognize language and cultural differences among your audiences |
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Respect functional and access needs populations and take action to meet their specific communications needs |
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Be the central source of information for the media and the public |
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Be available and accessible to the media |
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Be consistently accessible to the media |
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Assure the audience who is in charge |
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Do not talk about what you do not know |
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Do not talk about actions of other organizations |
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Do not make promises you cannot keep |
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91 | (1) |
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Acknowledge the conversation |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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Do not hold onto information---share it |
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92 | (1) |
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Conduct special updates when new information emerges |
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Make the incident commander available to the media |
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92 | (1) |
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Work with elected and appointed officials |
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Support your public information officer |
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Make technical staff available to the media |
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Include officials from other emergency agencies |
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Provide safe access to the disaster site |
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6 Application of communications fundamentals to all four phases of emergency management |
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Communications fundamentals |
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98 | (1) |
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98 | (3) |
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Preparedness programs and actions |
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101 | (8) |
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Social media data prepares emergency managers for the next disaster |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (5) |
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115 | (2) |
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117 | (1) |
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117 | (2) |
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7 Disaster communications audiences |
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119 | (10) |
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120 | (5) |
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Elected officials and community leaders |
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125 | (1) |
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Partners and stakeholders |
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126 | (1) |
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Traditional media and social media |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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8 How to adapt to the changing media environment |
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129 | (16) |
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Social media as a critical and indispensable element in disaster and crisis communications |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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Tips for interacting with the media and the public |
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130 | (1) |
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Getting emergency information to---and from---the media |
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130 | (1) |
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134 | (3) |
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Press conferences and briefings |
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Keys to all successful media outreach |
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139 | (1) |
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140 | (1) |
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141 | (2) |
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143 | (2) |
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145 | (28) |
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Texas winter storm case study |
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145 | (4) |
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149 | (1) |
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150 | (1) |
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Making the link: faster climate change, worse wildfires |
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150 | (2) |
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A fast-growing volume of research connecting climate change and wildfires |
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152 | (1) |
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The rise of "attribution science" |
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152 | (2) |
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The end of false equivalency by journalists |
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154 | (1) |
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154 | (1) |
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Effective communications was needed to manage all phases of the pandemic |
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156 | (2) |
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Reasons that pandemic communications failed |
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158 | (4) |
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162 | (1) |
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Hurricane Katrina --- Hurricane Ida case study |
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163 | (1) |
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163 | (2) |
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Excerpt from the U.S. Senate report on Katrina response |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (2) |
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NOHSEP Social Media and Text Alerting |
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168 | (3) |
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171 | (2) |
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10 Building an effective disaster communications capability in a changing media world |
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173 | (20) |
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173 | (1) |
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174 | (9) |
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183 | (2) |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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187 | (1) |
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188 | (1) |
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Monitoring, updating, and adapting |
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189 | (1) |
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190 | (1) |
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191 | (1) |
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