ON THE CUTTING EDGE: First Reporters

Thanks to cell phone cameras, text messaging and Twitter, the splash landing of US Airways Flight 1549 turned spectators into citizen journalists, reports The Associated Press: 

Witnesses were recounting what they heard and saw via text message, on the SMS-blogging service Twitter, and on online photo-sharing Web sites. Janis Krums wrote that there was a plane in the Hudson, and he was on the ferry going to pick up people.

 

Krums quickly uploaded images of passengers standing on the wings of the plane bobbing in the frigid waters, waiting to be rescued. The images were picked up by The Associated Press and distributed to media outlets around the world. Hundreds of users on the photo-sharing site Flickr posted photos within moments of the splash landing.

Click here to see Krums’ tweet. 

Posted by The Stiletto at January 19, 2009
Categories: On The Cutting Edge
 

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