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Emergency Preparedness: Reporting on Disasters

 Patricia Nazario

 Patricia Nazario, a "mobile journalist" from KPCC Radio in Los Angeles, reports from the back of a pick up truck

Stories of disasters, natural and manmade, are a staple of journalism in the United States and Latin America, indeed everywhere. Mexico, Central America and the Andean nations are eternally plagued with earthquakes, many with great loss life. Hurricanes annually can strike eastern and western Mexico and any of the countries of the Caribbean basin as well as the U.S. East Coast. Yearly torrential rains can bring flooding, misery and death to many Central and South American countries. Other examples of these human tragedies are of human origin. In this age of the continuing “war on terror,” the United States and its potential vulnerability to terror attacks, its ability to prevent them and its preparedness to deal with them are in the news daily. Similarly, although their countries have not been the scene of attacks on the scale of that of September 11, 2001, many Latin Americans know from bitter experience that terror is a weapon at the disposal of narcotics traffickers and other organized criminal gangs.Learn More

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An interview on ICFJ's Disaster Coverage program aired in Mexico by Horizonte 107.9 FM on July 28th. It was broadcast during the radio program “Todos los lunes: La agenda en los medios”, hosted by Mario Campos. Luis Botello, senior program director of ICFJ, was interviewed by Campos and explained how to cover these topics and what are the major challenges reporters face in this kind of context.   Read More...

Personal Finance WorkshopView more photos from the Disaser Coverage Workshops held in New Orleans.
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Participant Enrique Flor covers Tropical Storm Fay for his newspaper, El Sentinel. Read Part Two of that coverage.   Read More...

Disaster Cover Program participant Enrique Flor takes the knowledge he's gained from the workshop and applies it to cover Tropical Storm Fay, which hit the Florida region. Click here to read the articles he produced.   Read More...

Enrique FlorIn this interview with ICFJ Communications Assistant Joi-Marie McKenzie, Enrique Flor discusses how ICFJ's Disaster Coverage Program taught him the importance of disaster preparedness. At the completion of the hands-on workshop Flor, a reporter for South Florida's Spanish-language El Sentinel, encouraged his editor to produce a disaster preparedness plan for the newspaper. He also worked with a team to publish a special edition on the topic for the Hispanic community bracing for this year's hurricane season.

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Listen to a news report on immigrants in New Orleans from participant Emma Lastenia Amador, radio news director for Esteli Radio, Nicaragua. It was aired during the newscast, Accion Informativa.   Read More...

El Sentinel Enrique Flor, after the completion of his training went right back to his newsroom to get ready for the hurricane season, an important topic in Florida. Flor focused on the Katrina experience and how the Latino community is part of the reconstruction of Louisiana. Flor reported for multimedia platforms for his paper after the program ended.

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Program Dates:

May 11 - 18, 2008

Program Location:

May 11-14, 2008
Washington, DC

May 14-18, 2008
Baton Rouge/New Orleans


Application Deadline:

March 17, 2008

Notification Date:

April 1, 2008

For more information contact: 

Luis Botello
Senior Program Director
Email: lbotello@icfj.org
Phone: 202-349-7615
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