Disasters and the Media

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.

• Preface Notes on the Contributors PART 1: PERSPECTIVES The Context; P.Young Issues; S.Harrison PART II: CRISIS, EMERGENCY AND DISASTER Television News; C.Ferguson The National Crisis; P.Whitbread The Local News; J.Jefferson The Local Crisis; J.Jefferson Communicating in an International Emergency; T.Hardie-Forsyth Civil Emergencies and the Media; M.Granatt PART III: THE HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER A Newspaper at the Heart of the Hillsborough Tragedy ; A.Green A Tale of Two Cities: Liverpool; P.Marley A Tale of Two Cities: Sheffield; S.Harrison The Management of the Organisation in Crisis; P.Hayes PART IV: LEARNING THE LESSONS Training and Rehearsal; P.Whitbread Media Liaison: Lessons from the Front Line; S.Harrison Postscript; S.Harrison Appendix 1: The Emergency Planning College Appendix 2: The Central Office of Information Network References Further Reading Index

'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