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Crisis management is of increasing importance to organisations. With the rise of single-issue pressure groups, the development of sophisticated and informed consumers and volatile voters, no organisation in the public or private sector can afford to neglect preparation for dealing with the disasters that may befall it. This book aims to improve the relationship between the media and those subject to media scrutiny at a time of crisis or disaster by generating mutual understanding of their needs. Drawing on the experience of practitioners, it aims to disseminate good practice. Part I sets the context and raises some general issues on the theme of communicating at a time of crisis or disaster. Part II looks at the relationships between media and those who are trying to manage the crisis in public relations and public information terms. It contains a number of case studies, each contributed by an expert, clearly explaining how a variety of crises and disasters were managed by the organisations concerned, and how they were reported by the media. Part III is an extended case study of the Hillsborough disaster, taking a candid look at what happened from the perspective of four very different people who were closely involved in the aftermath. The final section includes chapters on the value of training and rehearsal, and some of the lessons learned from Dunblane.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Perspectives
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Crisis, Emergency and Disaster
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The Hillsborough Disaster
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Learning the Lessons
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Reviews
'Shirley Harrison has pulled together an extremely varied and useful account of emergencies and the media, an invaluable resource for all of us, which ever side of the emergencies 'fence' we find ourselves.' - Jon Snow, Civil Protection
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
SHIRLEY HARRISON is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Business School, Leeds Metropolitan University. Prior to that she was Head of Public Relations at Sheffield City Council. She is a member of the Institute of Public Relations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disasters and the Media
Book Subtitle: Managing crisis communications
Editors: Shirley Harrison
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14640-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-71785-1Published: 12 January 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-14642-0Published: 01 January 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-14640-6Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 238
Topics: Human Resource Management, International Business, Management, Industries, Media Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality