Citizen Journalists First on the Ground For Continental Crash

Some of the first reports of last night’s crash of Continental flight 3407 did not come from news crews, but from eyewitness reports — these days called citizen journalism. TVNewser reveals when the news networks reported the crash, but it’s how they reported it that makes this news.

In Breaking News 101 you are taught to open up the phone lines. It’s the best way to get reports from the ground. But with more video-enabled cell phone and mini video cameras, and the ease of uploading those video to the Web, getting video from a breaking news story is almost as quick as calling it in.

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