Sentence examples for coverage of disasters from inspiring English sources
"Ace in the Hole" has for years been cited as a cautionary harbinger of things to come as media coverage of disasters has become a story itself.
Indeed, the BBC's This World, and C4's Unreported World - both fine series - are the only regular television windows on the rest of the globe, other than news coverage of disasters, scandals, British wars and royal visits.
How they move from breaking news coverage of disasters to smart "second-day" stories to more revealing investigations a week or a month later is one of the greatest tests of their skill.
The image of WFP-stamped food sacks being loaded off trucks is a staple of the media's coverage of disasters, but today the agency wants to draw more attention to its resilience-building activities, such as supporting smallholder farmers or providing cash or vouchers for people to buy food and support local markets.
Plenty of research has shown that TV coverage of disasters can reinforce the trauma, especially for children but also for adults.
The operation has also been portrayed as representative of a trend whereby public reaction to media coverage of disasters leads and shapes official state response, even precipitating the creation of policy where none has existed before.
By extraction of coverage of geological disasters, barrier lakes, and floods from post-disaster airborne remote sensing images and overlaying pre-disaster background data, the damage area and damage proportion matrix of a farming area can be obtained.
Not all outbreaks are treated equally, however, as western media coverage of humanitarian disasters is not always correlated with disaster severity (23, 24).
Yet the problem surely isn't that the news media have overdone coverage of the disasters.
Recent news coverage of natural disasters has exposed the difficulties and critical importance of effective response operations.
Aid workers identify a direct correlation between media coverage of humanitarian disasters and public donations to appeals.
