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Community Structure And Media Risk Coverage, Sharon Dunwoody
Community Structure And Media Risk Coverage, Sharon Dunwoody
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Professor Dunwoody regards media organizations to be community creatures; their accounts to be social constructions; and answers to, "Who's right?" to be relative.
The Media, Risk Assessment And Numbers: They Don't Add Up, Sharon M. Friedman
The Media, Risk Assessment And Numbers: They Don't Add Up, Sharon M. Friedman
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Professor Friedman argues that, for risks to be reported accurately, journalism educators must help their students understand science, numbers and statistics.
Technical Risk In The Mass Media: Introduction, Allan Mazur
Technical Risk In The Mass Media: Introduction, Allan Mazur
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Special editor, Professor Mazur introduces and explains the origins of the symposium.
Mass Media As An Information Channel And Public Arena, Hans Peter Peters
Mass Media As An Information Channel And Public Arena, Hans Peter Peters
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Professor Peters argues that several functions of mass media compete and that attempts to improve risk coverage must avoid optimizing one at the expense of others.
Mass Media And Environmental Risk: Seven Principles, Peter M. Sandman
Mass Media And Environmental Risk: Seven Principles, Peter M. Sandman
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Sandman suggests that, when spokespersons for risk sources are inept in conveying their messages, they and we pay heavily for their mistakes.