How Not To Cover a Disaster
Six things the media really has to stop doing while on the disaster beat.
4 min readMar 31, 2021
Disasters happen and reporting them is essential, but there’s always that dead air — when nothing more is happening and we’re awaiting more news. That’s when the dread ‘human interest’ stories fill the time, the reporters turning from the real story to look for victims who will try to answer…
