Comments on: San Diego station shows how to cover a major disaster online

By: Leng Caloh

Leng Caloh — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:12:20 +0000

For the record, the Google Map on the CBS site was actually created by the New Media team at KPBS, the local public broadcasting station in San Diego. :)

By: California wildfires: a roundup « Online Journalism Blog

California wildfires: a roundup « Online Journalism Blog — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:04:40 +0000

[...] Martin Stabe: San Diego TV station News 8 … has responded to the crisis on its patch by taking down its entire regular web site and replacing it with a rolling news blog, linking to YouTube videos of its key reports (including Himmel’s), plus Google Maps showing the location of the fire. [...]

By: Engagement 101: It's an ill wind...

Engagement 101: It's an ill wind... — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:16:02 +0000

[...] recently and it’s brilliant for helping focus the mind on what news is really about. Martin Stabe reports how a San Diego TV station:has responded to the crisis on its patch by taking down its entire [...]

By: For disaster reporting - change your site template and turn on social-media-mode : Journalism.co.uk editors blog

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:54:16 +0000

[...] 8, a CBS affiliate in San Diego, has even (thanks to Martin Stabe @ the Press Gazette for the point) taken down its normal website and replaced it with a rolling [...]

By: Kristine Lowe

Kristine Lowe — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Tube, Twitter, Flickr, Technorati, Facebook and various other aggregation and social networking tools. A few weeks back it was Burma and it’s citizen journalists leading the way, this week it’s the coverage of the Wildfires in Southern California.Martin Stabe reportshow San Diego TV station News 8 has “responded to the crisis on its patch by taking down its entire regular web site and replacing it with a rolling news blog, linking to YouTube videos of its key reports, plus Google Maps showing the location of the

By: Recovering Journalist

Recovering Journalist — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

powerful. Nobody knows more details than the people directly affected by the fire. In addition to maps, video and other features, the Southern California media should be providing the community with a place to get the word out. Update, courtesy of thePressGazette.co.ukblog: Both the Los Angles Times and San Diego’s public broadcasting station KPBS are using Twitter to provide rapid, rolling updates of the fires. That’s a terrific use of Twitter! Update: In the comments, Josh Lucas points out an LA Times

By: Martin Stabe

Martin Stabe — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

[IMG Fleet Street 2.0]San Diego station shows how to cover a major disaster onlineWednesday, 24 October 2007, 13:00 San Diego TV station News 8, whose reporter Larry Himmel who filed a report from outside his burning house yesterday, is doing some very impressive online reporting of the devastating wildfires on its patch