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News and Terrorism

Overview

Project Status

Completed

Last updated

May 31, 2019

Sponsor

Department of Homeland Security

At-a-Glance

Series of scenario-based workshops called "News and Terrorism: Communicating in a Crisis."

Objectives

Keeping the public informed during a terrorist attack is the goal of a series of scenario-based workshops called "News and Terrorism: Communicating in a Crisis."

Experts from the National Academies are providing reporters, state and local public information officers, emergency managers, and representatives from the public sector with frank, objective information about weapons of mass destruction and their impact. This project is being conducted in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation.

"The News Media Could Be Our Weakest Link" by Randy Atkins, Washington Post opinion piece (1/26/03)
Fact sheets on biological, chemical, IED, nuclear, and radiological attacks distributed at the workshops
Past workshop locations and dates; the first News and Terrorism workshop (see program) was held in Chicago on August 11, 2004.
NPR highlighted workshop in On the Media's Fear and Fallout and Le Freakout: Part 2