2014 N3Con Day3-4 Dispatches From Disaster Zones
Channel: HKU Journalism & Media
Date: 2014-06-13

Ukraine, March 2014. The Philippines, November 2013. Japan, March 2011. Afghanistan, since 2001. Would you have been ready to cope with the chaos in these countries as a correspondent? Veteran journalists share with us the lessons they learned for themselves and their newsrooms when large-scale, mass-casualty disasters strike. How do you deal with the emotional tragedy and physical hardships and get the facts right in the immediate fog of chaos? How do you revisit issues weeks, months and years later to keep people caring?

Speakers: Kevin Sites, Agnes Bun and Silvio Carrillo
Moderator: Madison Park