Digital Publishing Demonstrates Its Worth During Hurricane Sandy

Social media helps disseminate info, though BuzzFeed, Gawker, HuffPost have technical problems

The practice of digital journalism was both tested and proved yesterday as Hurricane/Super Storm Sandy bore down on the East Coast during an unforgettable night for millions of Americans.

While digital media outlets have been dutifully covering the storm for days, several prominent New York-based online publishers were hit with some unexpected outages during the brunt of the storm last night. Around 7 p.m., reports came in through Twitter that Gawker Media's blog network was down.

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