Print and electronic media coverage of disasters raises a multitude of issues about the media’s role during and after a crisis. This article focuses on a specific issue: the affective dimension of news media coverage immediately following a crisis. The selection and presentation of bushfire stories not only disseminates information but elicits emotion from audiences. I use textual and visual analysis of The Age newspaper’s coverage of the 2009 Victorian bushfires to examine the discursive structuring of affect. Comparisons are made with coverage of earlier bushfire disasters (the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires and the 1939 Black Friday fires) in order to investigate changes in the visual and verbal discourses of bushfire reporting. The article de...
The Australian summer is framed by a narrative of bushfi re. Southeastern Australia is recognized as...
In 2000 disaster struck Enschede in The Netherlands. Due to explosions at a fireworks facility 22 pe...
Disasters bring out the best, and worst, in journalists. They provide examples of journalistic pract...
This paper engages with contemporary debates around the mediation of distant suffering by examining ...
The 2009 'Black Saturday' Victorian bushfires claimed the lives of 173 people and have become known ...
The 2009 \u27Black Saturday\u27 Victorian bushfires claimed the lives of 173 people and have become ...
In the crucible of a major bushfire crisis, such as Victoria's devastating 2009 Black Saturday fires...
The news media has an important role to play in constructing and maintaining memories of disasters. ...
This study explores how journalistic practice has changed since the introduction of social media, wi...
This study explores how journalistic practice has changed since the introduction of social media, wi...
Disasters bring out the best, and worst, in journalists. They provide examples of journalistic pract...
This study uses news photographs and interviews with journalists to explore how Australia’s unpreced...
This study uses news photographs and interviews with journalists to explore how Australia’s unpreced...
The February 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria was Australia\u27s worst peace-time d...
This study addresses the difference in media coverage of the Australian bushfires and the pandemic, ...
The Australian summer is framed by a narrative of bushfi re. Southeastern Australia is recognized as...
In 2000 disaster struck Enschede in The Netherlands. Due to explosions at a fireworks facility 22 pe...
Disasters bring out the best, and worst, in journalists. They provide examples of journalistic pract...
This paper engages with contemporary debates around the mediation of distant suffering by examining ...
The 2009 'Black Saturday' Victorian bushfires claimed the lives of 173 people and have become known ...
The 2009 \u27Black Saturday\u27 Victorian bushfires claimed the lives of 173 people and have become ...
In the crucible of a major bushfire crisis, such as Victoria's devastating 2009 Black Saturday fires...
The news media has an important role to play in constructing and maintaining memories of disasters. ...
This study explores how journalistic practice has changed since the introduction of social media, wi...
This study explores how journalistic practice has changed since the introduction of social media, wi...
Disasters bring out the best, and worst, in journalists. They provide examples of journalistic pract...
This study uses news photographs and interviews with journalists to explore how Australia’s unpreced...
This study uses news photographs and interviews with journalists to explore how Australia’s unpreced...
The February 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria was Australia\u27s worst peace-time d...
This study addresses the difference in media coverage of the Australian bushfires and the pandemic, ...
The Australian summer is framed by a narrative of bushfi re. Southeastern Australia is recognized as...
In 2000 disaster struck Enschede in The Netherlands. Due to explosions at a fireworks facility 22 pe...
Disasters bring out the best, and worst, in journalists. They provide examples of journalistic pract...