... in facilitating charitable activities among the public. People are more likely to donate to disaster relief campaigns, as the media coverage of a disaster increases (Brown and Minty, 2008 ; Eisensee and Strömberg, 2007). Charities’ transparency in handling collected donations also seems to influence...

...Roger Bennett; Martin Daniel Editors or senior journalists within a sample of 21 leading UK newspapers were questioned about their opinions of the quality of the information about foreign (especially Third World) catastrophes supplied to them by the major disaster relief charities (Oxfam, Save...

... decisions. Factors discouraging donations included media reports of unfair aid distributions, warfare or internal insurrection, and inefficiency in the relief operation. Combined fund‐raising efforts covering several organisations were viewed more favourably than individual charity initiatives. State...