Newspaper response to flood and erosion hazards on the North Lake Erie shore

Needham, Roger D.; Nelson, James G.

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“…Based on our literature review, analysis of the role of media in the representation of water issues in newspapers has attracted low attention at the global level. An early paper in 1977 [8], newspaper responses to flooding and erosion associated with high water events in the Great Lakes were documented. Later in 1980 [9], the narrations of Italian and British newspapers in response to severe flooding which occurred in Florence city (Italy) in 1966 were assessed.…”

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Portraying the Water Crisis in Iranian Newspapers: An Approach Using Structure Query Language (SQL)

Amiraslani

Dragovich

2021

Water

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Water is a valuable resource for which demand often exceeds supply in dry climates. Managing limited water resources becomes increasingly difficult in circumstances of recurring drought, rising populations, rapid urbanisation, industrial development, and financial constraints, such as occur in Iran. Newspapers both report on and influence people’s understanding of water-related issues. An analysis was undertaken of two major Iranian daily newspapers over a 7-year period. Structure Query Language (SQL) was employed to identify relationships among a total of 1275 records/fields which were extracted from 84 water-related news items. They were analysed for message, contributor, spatiality and allocated space. Of the water-related items, wetlands comprised 33% (class), public awareness 54% (message), local level 56% (spatiality), and authorities 53% (contributor). Space allocation on each page was mostly <40% (94% of items). Four examples were highlighted of ambitious engineering projects adopted in response to water distribution issues. It is concluded that the general lack of educating messages about water use efficiency in rural areas and water consumption in cities does not assist in developing positive water-saving local behaviours. Newspapers could be a useful tool in a broader strategy for addressing and managing the demand side of the water crisis in Iran.

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Portraying the Water Crisis in Iranian Newspapers: An Approach Using Structure Query Language (SQL)

Amiraslani

Dragovich

2021

Water

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“…McCluskey and Swinnen (2004)) showed that audience demand drives both the publication of ‘relevant’ stories and the tendency for media to publish negative aspects of news items and stories. Analysis of media reporting on natural disasters has focused on the ways events are reported, the differences between various media sources (Needham & Nelson 1977; Wilkins 2000) and the ways in which media message are received and responded to by the audience (Pasquarè & Pozzetti 2007). Newspaper content analysis has been used extensively in studies of natural hazards particularly with regard to risk and risk communication (Rashid 2011).…”

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Perceived deficiencies in the provision of climate and weather information for tourism: A New Zealand media analysis

Wilson

Becken

2011

New Zealand Geographer

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Climate and weather are important for tourism and leisure as they impact on destination attractiveness and subsequent visitation. Through an archive analysis of media articles and a content analysis of Regional Tourism Organisation (RTO) websites, this paper explores perceived deficiencies in the currently available climate and weather information for tourists in New Zealand. While media reports focused on concern by many RTOs over the poor regional images generated by inaccurate and poorly presented climate and weather data, the RTO websites were found to contain limited climate and weather information. There is considerable potential for RTOs to improve in this respect.

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“…First, it presents a review of the structure of the cosmopolite-localite model, an empirically derived, hierarchial ordering of newspapers according to type and hazard reporting orientation. The model has its roots in the antecedent analysis of Canadian newspaper response to Lake Erie north shore hazards and adjustments (Needham 1976, Needham and Nelson 1977. New information and additional insight into editorial philosophies of newspapers from a different economic, physical, political, and social environment--the American south Lake Erie shore (Figure 1)--are considered and are reflected in the summaries of newspapers types.…”

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The cosmopolite-localite model: Newspaper types and natural hazard information potentials

Needham

1986

Environmental Management

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/ This article presents a description of the cosmopolite-localite model, a conceptual framework in which institutional and news coverage characteristics are organized according to four broad types. Hypothetical reporting patterns for natural hazards are graphed for the types along a continuum exhibiting local, ~egional, provincial, and international characteristics. A similar graphical presentation is used to describe the model's application to Canadian and American newspaper response to selected hazards affecting near and distant places. In conclusion, the value of the model to students and practioners of resource management is considered.

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Newspaper response to flood and erosion hazards on the North Lake Erie shore

Cited by 13 publications

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Portraying the Water Crisis in Iranian Newspapers: An Approach Using Structure Query Language (SQL)

Portraying the Water Crisis in Iranian Newspapers: An Approach Using Structure Query Language (SQL)

Perceived deficiencies in the provision of climate and weather information for tourism: A New Zealand media analysis

The cosmopolite-localite model: Newspaper types and natural hazard information potentials

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