ABSTRACT Covering terrorist attacks has posed numerous challenges to mainstream media across the world. Bringing information to the public quickly remains a primary goal for news media, but the journalistic duty to tell the truth comes with an increased responsibility for the accuracy of reports. When news is broken by civilian eyewitnesses and is posted by social media before it has even gone through the barest of verification checks, news media editors struggle to fulfil the task of informing the public while reporting on stories that hold the potential to alarm the audience. This paper offers some insights into the ways the New Zealand news media organised reporting on the March 15th terrorist attack in Christchurch. Based on face-to-face interviews with selected editors of major news organisations in New Zealand, it investigates the ways they operated in this situation. It explores key moments in editorial decision making on 15 March 2019, the first day of coverage of the terrorist attack. It focuses on the ‘first responder’ elements of news media work – speed and accuracy in providing information about the mosque attacks – to identify how journalistic norms are adapted and changed to report this breaking news.

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记者作为第一响应者

摘要 报道恐怖袭击给全球主流媒体带来了诸多挑战。快速向公众提供信息仍然是新闻媒体的主要目标，但说实话的新闻责任伴随着对报道准确性的更大责任。当新闻被平民目击者破坏并在社交媒体上发布时，甚至还没有经过最严格的验证检查，新闻媒体编辑就很难完成告知公众的任务，同时报道有可能引起观众恐慌的故事。本文就新西兰新闻媒体组织报道 3 月 15 日基督城恐怖袭击的方式提供了一些见解。根据对新西兰主要新闻机构选定编辑的面对面采访，它调查了他们在这种情况下的运作方式。它探讨了 2019 年 3 月 15 日（即恐怖袭击报道的第一天）编辑决策的关键时刻。它侧重于新闻媒体工作的“第一响应者”要素——提供有关清真寺袭击的信息的速度和准确性——以确定如何调整和改变新闻规范以报道这一突发新闻。