Breaking news literally breaks in

Posted on December 26th, 2007 by Deborah Potter

Breaking news is a staple of local TV, but it doesn’t often happen like this.  Two minutes into the 10 p.m. newscast on Chicago’s WLS-TV on Dec. 23, 2007,  a minivan crashed into the studio.  The driver later was quoted as saying he “wanted to be on the news.”  Here’s how anchor Ravi Baichwal reacted:
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Twittering traffic

Posted on December 26th, 2007 by Deborah Potter

Some news organizations have used the microblog site Twitter in the past to send updates about breaking news stories like the Minneapolis bridge collapse and the California wildfires. Now the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is “twittering” in a slightly different way about a local highway construction project. The paper has recruited a “twitter team” of [...]

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