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It’s Not a Disaster if It Doesn’t Make the 9 O’Clock News

How Factual Programming Can Shape Perceptions and Responses to Major Disasters

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Values and Choices in Television Discourse
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Now chairman of a major disaster relief charity in the UK, Clive Jones CBE is a television news journalist by background. Over three decades he held numerous senior television executive and board level appointments including Chief Executive of the ITV News Group. Since 2011 he has chaired the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). His reflection below was originally presented at the one-day interdisciplinary colloquium that was held at the University of Sussex in November 2013 and which first prompted the idea for this book. His presentation was further developed in discussion with Anne Caborn after the event.

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Jones, C. (2015). It’s Not a Disaster if It Doesn’t Make the 9 O’Clock News. In: Piazza, R., Haarman, L., Caborn, A. (eds) Values and Choices in Television Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478474_11

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