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Glenda Cooper
is a freelance writer and PhD student at City University’s Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism
Blog posts in total 2
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Nepal: Why are some disasters bigger stories than others?
It is not just how many people have to die to make it a big disaster for the media, but crucially how ‘important’ those deaths appear to be.
Aid workers file stories while journalists treat the injured
The Haitian earthquake, January 2010: a man performs brain surgery on a 15 year old girl; a second writes a gripping eyewitness account for the Guardian about the dead bodies piled up on the street.
