Risk Communication: A Handbook for Communicating Environmental, Safety, and Health Risks

By Regina Lundgren and Andrea McMakin (’99, M.A. Communication)

How do you alert people about a flu vaccine shortage without panicking them? How do you prepare to hold a safety meeting when workers are actively hostile? Which visual forms are best for showing the differences among cancer treatments? Risk Communication answers these and other questions for people who communicate or teach about health, safety, and environmental risks.

Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism

By Daniel Schorr

The book follows the octogenarian Schorr through his divorce with CBS—over his 1975 release to another news organization of a House report on U.S. intelligence activities—and his brief stay at the fledgling Cable News Network, to his post at NPR. In it, Schorr recalls decades-old anecdotes with convincing clarity and comments on a trade and an industry that in many respects have lost their way.

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