Crisis communication and COVID-19: Covering two Pacific tragedies with storytelling-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Crisis communication and COVID-19: Covering two Pacific tragedies with storytelling

Published:2021-09-30 Issue:1and2 Volume:27 Page:11-21
ISSN:2324-2035
Container-title:Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa
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Short-container-title:PJR

Author:

Robie David^ORCID

Abstract

Frontline journalism in the age of COVID-19 has posed particular challenges in dealing with personal risk, tackling an ‘infodemic’ of misinformation, and providing valuable news that can be used in vulnerable Pacific countries that have struggled with soaring infections and limited health infrastructure and resources. Five Pacific countries or territories have borne the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic—Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste. This article introduces two examples of public health storytelling in crisis communication, one being a pregnant Papua New Guinea woman who walked 25 kilometres to the nearest hospital—and died on reaching her destination; the other a pregnant Fijian nurse who died after battling COVID-19.

Publisher

Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library

Subject

Communication

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