Despite what seems to be growing scholarly interest in crisis communication, studies examining that scholarship arelimited (Ha & Boynton, 2014). Avery et al. (2010) analyzed crisis communication research in public relations, in terms ofjournal, method, sample characteristics, and theory: most articles relied heavily on rhetorical analyses and experiments,frequently used student samples, and focused largely on post-crisis and recovery management strategies. Similarly, An andCheng (2010) explored research topics or themes, theoretical applications, use of research questions/hypotheses, data gath-ering procedures and sources, and sample methods in crisis communication articles published from 1975 to 2006; however,they focused only on public relations journals (i.e., Public Relations Review and Journal of Public Relations Research). Ha andBoynton (2014) recently examined how crisis communication research was conducted, using an interdisciplinary approachin terms of theoretical, methodological, and authorship frameworks, but extending the focus beyond public relations journalsto other communication journals, e.g. advertising, journalism, telecommunication, etc