This open access book explores the emotional labour of crisis reporters in an original style
that combines fictional and factual narrative. Exploring how journalists make sense of their
emotional experience and development in relation to their professional ideology it illustrates
how media professionals learn to think and act within crisis situations. Drawing on in-depth
interviews with journalists reporting on wars terror attacks and natural disasters the book
rethinks traditional concepts in journalistic thought. Finally it reflects on the specific
contemporary vulnerabilities of industry professionals including the impact of new
technologies specific forms of precarity and a particular strain of cynicism central to the
industry. Combining comprehensive empirical research with the fictional narrative of a
journalist protagonist Crisis Reporters Emotions and Technology establishes an innovative
approach to academic storytelling.
