UK news sites responded to Thursday morning’s blast with all the tools at hand, making the most of their own resources while encouraging grassroots input through Eyewitness accounts and images. They’re offering practical information like travel alerts and cancellation and places to share emotion alongside their franchise breaking news and in-depth coverage. Numbers and addresses for text messages or e-mail and photos/video are as ubiquitous as the police casualty number. But, given the stress on the UK’s mobile phone system today, news organizations may need to rethink urging people to use mobile messaging during the first hours of a crisis.
– Sky TV is posting news video but not a live feed as far as I can tell.
– The Sun set up an emergency message board like those that cropped up during the tsunami aftermath, urging people to let friends and family know they’re safe.
– The Telegraph made a big mistake by limiting access to registered users and sending hurried users to other sites. A better bet would be to create a breaking news section anyone can access for now and and remind people to register for full access.
More to come.
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