MJRC Report on Humanitarian Crisis Coverage Featured on ABC Australia
Our “Humanitarian Crisis Coverage Report”, which examines how media attention is distributed across ten major humanitarian emergencies and how closely coverage reflects the severity of these crises, was recently featured by ABC Australia, the Australian public service broadcaster.
The report mentioned in a segment of Media Watch program focusing on the war in Ukraine and the way it has been covered by the media. The program highlights how our findings draw attention to the phenomenon of “media fatigue,” and how this has affected coverage of the war in Ukraine, with potential implications for policymakers and humanitarian actors.
The “Humanitarian Crisis Coverage Report”, published by our center in August 2025, analyzed 78,667 news articles covering ten of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises, from Sudan and Ethiopia to Ukraine and Gaza. Drawing on English-language media across eight countries, the study examined how editorial attention is distributed within the Anglophone information ecosystem.
The ABC program is available here.
The study is available here.
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