Media and Crisis Communication

W. Timothy Coombs (PhD Purdue University) is a former university professor and currently is on the Advisory Board for the Centre for Crisis & Risk Communications and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. He has been researching crisis communication for the past 30 years and develop the situational crisis communication theory. His crisis communication research has won multiple awards from professional organizations including the Jackson, Jackson & Wagner Behavioral Science Prize from the Public Relations Society of America and the Pathfinder Award from the Institute of Public Relations in recognition of his research contributions to the field and to the practice. He is the author of Communicating in Extreme Crises: Lessons from the Edge. Coombs is also an ICA Fellow and an Academic Core member of the University of Georgia Crisis Communication Think Tank.

• Series Editor’s ForewordIntroductionChapter 1: Black Press Videos As Crisis Communication Tools for Social Amplification of Risk In a Global PandemicChapter 2: Examining How Medium, Message, and Apology Used in Crises Responses Impact StakeholdersChapter 3: Arab Spring Conflict Visuals: A Content Analysis of Crisis Coverage on pan-Arab TV NewsChapter 4: Differentiation Versus Denial: Impact of Messaging About Player Transactions On Team Reputation, Ticket Sales, and Sports Channel SubscriptionsChapter 5: Media Framing, Sports Activism Failure and Crisis Communication- European Football Teams and the One Love Campaign at the World Cup 2022Chapter 6: Lessons Learned from the Early Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Communicating about Public Health Risks on Social MediaChapter 7: The effectiveness of converging warning messages from multiple weather communicatorsChapter 8: Crisis Communication in the Age of AI: Navigating Opportunities, Challenges, and Future HorizonsChapter 9: Checking the Pulse of Stakeholders through the Eyes of the Media: Examining Publics’ Emotions in Covid Management and CommunicationChapter 10: Cloaking through Crisis Communication: Hiding Uncomfortable Information