Disaster Coverage Under The Resultant Force Of Traditional Media And New Media

China has already come to a high-risk society. Disaster coverage has always been one important theme in its reports. As the new media rises, disaster coverage has changed a lot and there shows lots of differences between traditional media and new media on one specific disaster. From the perspective of media ecology, media is not a closed entity but an open system. Mutual function happens in different media systems, people and media, elements inside one media, media and the external environments. Author believes that traditional media and new media are two extremely different media systems and they also have interactions between them.Based on the theory of media ecology, author tries to make the disaster coverage of rainstorm happened in Beijing 21th July 2012 reappear. The research shows, that, firstly tradition media of different property, from different district shows differences on disaster coverage; secondly, Weibo is one complicated system and its user are from different background. There is lots of differences between its users. Thirdly, mutual function happens between traditional media and new media.What caused the current situation of disaster coverage? Author thinks the interaction between traditional media and new media should responsible for that. What is more, the interaction between media and outer environment is inevitable. Especially in China, the mutual function between government and media shows strong.From the circulation perspective of media ecology, author thinks that there is neither good nor bad between traditional media and new media on the disaster coverage. The differences and interactions between are an important method for media system growing and it is also good for their coevolution.