ArticleAuthors: Jamie Matthews (2017)
The city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture was devastated by the tsunami that struck Japan’s North East Coast on 11 March 2011.
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Ishinomaki, which included interviews with senior journalists from the city’s two local
newspapers, the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun and the Ishinomaki
Kahoku, this paper presents an intrinsic case study of the role a local newspaper in Ishinomaki after the Great East Japan Disaster.
The evidence reveals that in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami journalists recognised how their newspaper could serve the immediate information-needs of the local community by providing essential lifeline information, describing a duty to re... 
