Public policy papers The Media and Public Trust in Natural Disaster: The Canadian Experience A Roundtable IDNDR Day, October 1998 A Report by Black & White Communications April 2000 ICLR Research Paper Series – No. 7
Abstract
At a gathering in Ottawa on October 14, 1998, marking the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, Black & White Communications Inc. convened a number of leading Canadian new executives and journalists as well as a number of key stake-holders from NGOs, community organizations, the utilities and the Weather Network to participate in a Roundtable on the Media and Public Trust to discuss their experiences in covering a natural disaster. These participants had reflected on the special demands and challenges of covering an emergency, and shared the lessons they learned and best practices from what they saw, what they did well, and what they would do better in the future.