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The topic of our meeting March 10, 2006 was the Media’s Role and Responsibility in Calamitous Disaster Management.
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Thanks to all of our speakers who made this meeting an interesting end extremely informative one. Special thanks to board member Frances Schlosstein who truly delivered on her vision of bringing a very important topic to our members.
NYM Board Members and Speakers, from left to right:
John J. Tierney, Stephen Carrol, Frances Schlosstein, Judge Thomas P. Griesa, Captain Joseph R. Concannon (Ret.), Howard A. Schmidt, John Miller, Phil Froehlich
We captured both video and audio at this meeting so we plan to be able to provide portions of this meeting online in the near future.
The basic goals and takeaways of this meeting were to provide the following information:
- The roles and relationships that the media play in emergencies and disasters
- How effective and ineffective media impact public safety during emergencies and disasters
- Best and worst practices in dealing with the media
- Impact to business of reporting threats to law enforcement, including timing issues
- How to plan and who to go to in an emergency
- How to prepare your organization to use media channels in an emergency
- How to establish media relationships before a disaster
- How to work with the media in a crisis to help facilitate both internal and external communication
- What to expect…and what not to expect…from the media in a crisis
== Agenda ==
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Introductions and Key Business Issues
Judge Thomas Griesa-Court House Welcome
Law Enforcement, Government & the Media in Disaster Management
John Miller
Assistant Director, Office of Public Affairs
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Former ABC News Correspondent
Jarrod Bernstein
Press Secretary, NYC Office of Emergency Management
Real and Perceived Threats & the Role of the Media in Business Continuity Management
Howard Schmidt
Former Chief Security Officer, eBay
Former Microsoft White House Advisor on Cyber Security
Top Ten Ways To Effectively Work With The Media During A Crisis
Fred Hill
President of FWHill, LLC
Former EVP Communications JP Morgan Chase
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Reporting From the Trenches During A Disaster
Jeanne Meserve
CNN Correspondent
Jonathon Dienst
NBC News
GUARD Program
Stephen Carrol
Director, Digital Convergence, Thirteen/WNET
GUARD stands for “Geospatially-Aware Urban Approaches for Responding to Disasters”
View a press release here:
http://www.thirteen.org/pressroom/release.php?get=1660
Defining the Lessons Learned
Panel Session
Where Do We Go From Here?
Panel Session
Wherever there is calamity, the media plays a crucial role in information dissemination. During 9/11, the great Northeast power failure, Hurricane Katrina, numerous cyber attacks, and even corporate-level debacles, we have witnessed how the media is able to bring us close to the site of the disaster, show us images from stricken areas in real time, ignite public sentiment and change the shape of government’s and private industry’s response. Whether in cooperation or competition with official sources of information, they are usually able to inform us faster and more effectively than any other means.
Aside from satisfying the public’s insatiable thirst for news and analysis, the media with its extensive and resilient communications infrastructures can also serve as vehicle for public safety and business information, supplementing government and corporate channels or serving as the primary vehicle. In fact, during major outages such as Katrina, the media served as a two-way communications conduit, including getting critical information from the ground back to decision and policy makers where other established channels had failed.
Through a series of speakers representing law enforcement, government, enterprise and the media, we will look at the role the media plays and should play in disaster preparedness, emergency management and critical infrastructure protection. Individually and through lively discussion with the audience, our speakers will examine the interdependencies among these parties, and how relationships change during extreme circumstances.
Participants will review actual case studies to discover what are the spoken and unspoken rules in dealing with the media, what works and doesn’t work, and how best to manage the fragile balance between sharing information and protecting the public and corporate interests. We will also look at how our leaders work with the media to address public safety.
Participants will leave with a better understanding of what government and companies can expect from the media in an incident and the tools to plan most effectively to protect lives and critical infrastructure in partnership with them.
