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Communicating Disasters An Asia Pacific Resource Book

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Opening pages, Contents, Acknowledgements, Co-Publishers information, Preface by Elizabeth Elizabeth Fong, Regional Manager, UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok
Foreword: Communicating Disasters: A Century of Lessons, by Sir Arthur C Clarke
Introduction by Nalaka Gunawardene and Frederick Noronha, Editors
   
The 2004 Tsunami: Unfinished Story, by Johanna Son, Director, Inter Press Service – Asia Pacific;
A Candle in My Window, by Peter Griffin, Co-founder, South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog
Nobody Told Us to Run…, by Chanuka Wattegama, Director - organisational development, LIRNEasia
Children of Tsunami: Documenting Asia’s Longest Year, by Manori Wijesekera and Nalaka Gunawardene, TVE Asia Pacific
Beyond the Disaster News Template, by Joanne Teoh Kheng Yau, senior producer, Channel News Asia, Singapore
Surviving the Tsunami: A Journalist's Story, by Frederick Noronha, freelance writer, journalist and ICT activist, India
   
Capturing Nature’s Fury, by Shahidul Alam, Founder, Drik Picture Library, Bangladesh
Stop All the Clocks! Beyond Text: Looking at the Pics, by Max Martin, Journalist and editor of indiadisasters.org
Seeing Disasters Differently: How to Unearth Real Disaster Stories, by Amjad Bhatti, coordinating editor, South Asia Disaster Report 2005
Communicating to Save Lives, by Patrick Fuller, Communications Coordinator, IFRC Tsunami Response in Sri Lanka
Extra Hands in Times of Crisis, by Veronica Balderas, United Nations Volunteers
   
Engaging the Media: A Rough Guide, by A S Panneerselvan, Executive Director, Panos South Asia
Building Bridges: Managers and the Media, by Sanny Jegillos, Rajesh Sharma and Pablo Torrealba, UNDP
Who's Afraid of Citizen Journalists? by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Senior Researcher, Centre for Policy Alternatives, Sri Lanka
Bridging the Long ‘Last Mile’, by Nalaka Gunawardene, Director and CEO, TVE Asia Pacific
Gender and Disasters: Tracing the Link, by Ammu Joseph, independent journalist and author, India
Healing Broken Hearts, Calming Anguished Minds, by Chin Saik Yoon, founder and publisher, Southbound, Malaysia
'Critical Mass' for Community Disaster Resilience, by Buddhi Weerasinghe, consultant on disaster risk reduction
Digging Under the Rubble, by Kalpana Sharma, independent journalist, India
   
Appendix 1: Report of the Brainstorming on 'Communicating Disasters: Building on the Tsunami Experience and Responding to Future Challenges': Bangkok, 21 – 22 December 2006
Appendix 2: List of participants of Bangkok Brainstorming, December 2006
Appendix 3: Suggested guidelines for more effective engagement of mass media and new media before, during and after disasters
Appendix 4: Short profiles of contributing authors
Appendix 5: Reuters AlertNet for Journalists
Appendix 6: UN/ISDR Media Network on Disaster Risk Reduction
Appendix 7: UN OCHA ReliefWeb Project
 

 

 

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