Media Roundtable - Saturday Sept. 17. Art 101. Pre-event - World Tsunami Awareness Day 10:00 – 11:30 Roundtable: Narrowing gaps between academia and media – Art 101 Moderator: Gerald Kato, UH School of Communications Why researchers on DRR began to realize the necessity of media-academia collaboration - Natsuko Chubachi, IRIDeS How journalists experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the media’s expectation towards the academic community after the disaster- Norik