CHAPTER 26
Disaster Reporting
Vijay S. Satokar
CHAPTER INSIGHTS
This chapter deals with aspects of reporting a ‘disaster’. It explains what a disaster is. Dictionary defines disaster as a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss or destruction; broadly, a sudden or great misfortune or failure. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) set up in 2005 with the prime minister as the chief executive may define ‘disaster’ from the authority’s and the government’s point of view. For a reporter, a disaster could be a world encompassing occurrence as the coronavirus pandemic at the city level or the tragedy that has befallen a family where a member or two have tested positive necessitating hospitalization. It could also be a crime, ...
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