"There's too many books out there, said the joker to the thief, I can't get no relief!"

Sorry, one more (written for students mainly).  

Simon Cottle


Global Crisis Reporting: Journalism in the Global Age 
Simon Cottle
(Open University Press 2009)
ISBN-13: 978 0335 221387 (pb) 
ISBN- 978 0335 22139 4 (hb)

( http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/resources/globalcrisisreporting.pdf )

Table of Contents:
1)         Global Crisis, What Crisis?    
		Global Crises: Eight Moments
			One: 	The planet imperiled. It’s Official
			Two: 	A visible death in the ‘Global War on Terror’
			Three: 	Migrants and colliding worlds
			Four:  	Pandemics on planes
			Five:  	World disasters, world compassion
			Six: 	Poverty and people power
			Seven: 	Bearing witness and human rights
			Eight: 	Financial meltdowns, overlapping communities of fate
		Global Crises Defined
		Global Crisis in Context
		Plan of Book
2)         Journalism in the Global Age
		International Communication and Media Globalization
			News media as emissaries of global dominance
			News media as emissaries of the global public sphere
		Qualifying Perspectives in the Field: Peripheral and Professional
			Peripheral visions
			Professional preoccupations and practices
			The demise of foreign correspondents?
		Emergent New(s) Trajectories
			Mediating global crises
			Theorizing contingency and complexity
3)	(Un)Natural Disasters: The Calculus of Death and the Ritualization of Catastrophe
		Geo-politics and the Calculus of Death
		The Ritualization of Catastrophe and the Politics of Despair
		The South Asian tsunami: The ‘Cruel Sea’ and rituals of solidarity
		Hurricane Katrina: Disaster myths and the ritualization of dissent
		(Un)Natural disasters as global focusing events
4)	Ecology and Climate Change: From Science and Sceptics to Spectacle and… 
		Environmental Reporting: What’s Known
		Climate Change: Science and Sceptics
		Climate Change: Spectacle and …
5) 	Forced Migrations and Human Rights: Antinomies in the Mediated Ethics of
                Care
	               News, Migrants and Collective Problematization
	               A Different Story: Journalism and the Mediated Ethics of Care
	               Human Rights on the News Agenda
6)	New Wars and the Global War on Terror: On Vicarious, Visceral Violence    
		Communicating War: Controls and Contingencies
		Hidden Wars, New Wars
		Information War and the New Western Way of War
		Spectacle and the Global War on Terror
7)         The ‘CNN Effect’ and ‘Compassion Fatigue’: Moving Beyond Commonsense
		The CNN Effect: Too Good to be True?
		Compassion Fatigue: Too Bad to be Right?
8)	Humanitarian NGOs, News Media and the Changing Relations of 
	Communicative Power
		Humanitarian NGOs in the Global Age
		Humanitarian NGOs in Interaction with the News Media
			The crowded aid field and organizational branding
			Packaging media reports and facilitating the field
			Regionalizing global humanitarianism
			Risk, reputation and mediated scandals
		Make Poverty History: Dilemmas behind the Scenes
		New Communication Technologies: Reconfiguring Communicative 
		Power
9)	Global Crisis Reporting: Conclusions
	      	Researching Complexity and Contingency
		Global Crises, Nations and Public Sphere(s) 
	Glossary
	References



Professor Simon Cottle, 
Deputy Head of School, 
School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, 
Bute Building (Room 1.28),
Cardiff University,
King Edward VII Avenue,
Cardiff CF10 3NB
Wales, U.K.
Tel: 02920 874506
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web: www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/