Author(s)

Yaqi Xing ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Dissemination of News, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China

Corresponding Author

Yaqi Xing

ABSTRACT

China is one of the countries most severely affected by natural disasters in the world, with a wide variety of disasters and a broad distribution across regions. The "Top 10 Natural Disasters of 2023" report revealed that Typhoon Du Suri, the fifth typhoon of 2023, caused significant damage in China, making typhoons a hot topic every summer. Through factual investigation and representation, this study examines information reporting on hurricane events published by various news media. The study aims to sum up the detailing qualities of data-driven journalism in disaster reporting. Based on this, the study explores social responsibility and humanitarianism, and offers targeted suggestions, providing references for the construction of data journalism in future disaster reporting.

KEYWORDS

Data Journalism; Disaster Reporting; Digital Humanitarianism; Typhoon Events

CITE THIS PAPER

Yaqi Xing, Rethinking Digital Humanitarianism in Data-driven Reports—Disaster Coverages of Typhoon Incidents as an Example. Media and Communication Research (2024) Vol. 5: 179-186. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/mediacr.2024.050128.

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