Media, Journalism and Disaster Communities

1. Introduction.- 2. Brazilian Local and National News Coverage of the Samarco Disaster: A Disaster for the Community, the Corporation or the Environment?.- 3. Reporting from the 'inner circle': afno manche and commitment to community in post-earthquake Nepal.- 4.Kesennuma's Building for the Future and Ishinomaki's Rolling Press: sharing localised news of recovery from T hoku's disaster-affected communities.- 5. Drought is a disaster in the city: Local news media's role in communicating disasters in Australia.- 6. Media and climate migration:Transnational and local reporting on vulnerable island communities.- 7. Changing the story of urban violence in El Salvador. The crónica, the community and voices from the ganglands.- 8. Oscillating between alienation and frustrated engagement: the study of Donbas residents' response to conflicting narratives in the media.- 9. 'Bloodbath, invasion, massacre':  Idoma Voice and the framing of the farmer-herder conflict in Benue State, Nigeria.- 10. Media and reconciliation: a study of media-led initiatives in post-IS Mosul.- 11. Is local journalism failing? - local voices in the aftermath of the Grenfell and Lakanal fire disasters.- 12. Attributes in Community and National News Coverage of the Parkland Mass Shootings.- 13. Informing refugee communities in Greece: What is possible within the parameters of the humanitarian structure?.- 14. When Media Fuel the Crisis: Fighting Hate Speech and Communal Violence in Myanmar.

Jamie Matthews is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at Bournemouth University, UK.

Einar Thorsen is Professor of Journalism and Communication, and Deputy Dean of Research and Professional Practice in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK.