Nonverbal Neutrality of Broadcasters Covering Crisis: Not Just What You Say But How You Say It - Hardcover

by Danielle Deavours (Author)

Offering a critical and sensitive reflection on journalists' nonverbal behaviours during their coverage of school shootings in the U.S., this book shows how individual and social level factors predict broadcasters' nonverbal neutrality.

Author Biography

Danielle Deavours is Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism at Samford University, USA. She currently serves as the 2023-2024 chair of the AEJMC Broadcast and Mobile Journalism Division. She is also 2023-2024 chair of the BEA Interactive Media and Emerging Technology Division, as well as a co-chair for the IMET student category in the BEA Festival of Media Arts.

In 2022, Deavours received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Nonverbal Communication Division of the National Communication Association. She is a former Emmy- and Murrow-award winning broadcast journalist with over a decade of experience in local television news.