Top anchors in Louisiana, RNC scales back
As you might expect, the networks have sent their top anchors to Gustav, and the Republican National Convention has significantly scaled back on its first night. “It’s kind of a no-brainer,” Kate O’Brian, ABC’s senior vice president, said of the decision to send Charlie Gibson to New Orleans. “Charlie goes where the big news is…. [...]
Man staying behind streaming Gustav
A man in New Orleans has decided to stay behind and stream the hurricane live via UStream.tv. He’s also blogging and Twittering his experience. “Over 3000 viewers, an ABC interview, 2 missed calls from CNN, and 4 cases of beer,” he explains about his Sunday night. Update: More live streams here (Thanks, Amanda!)
Poynter debuts Gustav storm tools site
Al Tompkins over at Poynter quickly rolled out this Ning-powered community site that’s aggregating the latest Gustav news, data, links and Twitter posts. One of the best resources on the site is a map that displays the storm surge monitors all around New Orleans.
WWLtv.com’s live audience growing fast
As Hurricane Gustav evacuees reach safety outside New Orleans, WWLtv.com‘s live streaming coverage is growing its audience fast. Site manager Tom Planchet says he expects to have served 100,000 streams by the day’s end. “I expect that probably to double Monday and possibly again Tuesday,” he says. WWL’s air signal is being picked up by [...]
NOLA.com staff staying… for now
A note from NOLA.com Editor Jon Donley: “We’re in the hurricane bunker now, then will pull back if necessary to one of several hardened and generator powered safe sites inside the city. We don’t intend to evacuate unless it becomes life-threatening.” Current screen grab (3 p.m. ET)…
New Orleans stations begin live streams
Updated: TV stations in the path of Gustav are now streaming live coverage. Hundreds of thousands of people watched WWLtv.com‘s live stream during Katrina, and it’s back for Gustav. WDSU is also streaming it’s live coverage, as well as WVUE (Fox) and WGNO (ABC).
Gustav converges on Republican convention
Updated: Two massive stories are converging on Monday, and the networks are splitting their resources between Hurricane Gustav and the RNC. Politico.com: Networks scramble to cover two quickly-changing stories NBC press release: Williams to the Gulf, Brokaw to anchor RNC NY Times: Bush, Cheney cancel convention speeches for Monday TVNewser: NBC News making use of [...]
NOLA.com running on all cylinders for Gustav
I remember three years ago looking at the Times-Picayune’s website, NOLA.com, as Katrina moved in. It was not nearly as prepared as it is now. NOLA.com features a clean layout of up-to-date news, weather maps, storm tracker, video, survival guide, reader advice on over a dozen topics, forums divided out by neighborhood, and a blog [...]
Hurricane tracker debuts on msnbc.com
Our team at msnbc.com did a great job building this interactive hurricane tracker mashed over Virtual Earth, which just debuted on the site in time for Gustav. (Full disclosure: I work there.)
LiveNewsCameras.com’s hurricane map
The LiveNewsCameras folks over at Fox Chicago have launched another new feature: a Google map mashup with links to live streams. They’ve adapted the map to focus on Hurricane Gustav. More on the new feature here.
WWLtv.com traffic already skyrocketing
Even before Hurricane Gustav became a hurricane, WWLtv.com began streaming two “live chats” a day with their meteorologists. They take reader questions and then illustrate the answers in a live video stream, drawing on weather maps. “The live chats have been getting between 3,000 to 6,000 simultaneous views,” explains WWLtv.com’s Tom Planchet on Friday afternoon, [...]
Obama’s speech sets ratings records
More Americans watched Barack Obama’s speech last night — 38 million — than the Olympics opening ceremony or the last American Idol finale. It also set a record in TV ratings for a convention.
Gearing up for Gustav, here we go again?
The local media in New Orleans are preparing for the worst again, as Gustav takes aim for the Gulf Coast. “We are going to be much better prepared than we were three years ago,” said Peter Kovacs, managing editor of the Times Picayune. “Our mistake three years ago was a reliance on operating from this [...]
News wires notice news aggregators
Reuters writer Robert MacMillan offers a list of news aggregator service sites that the LR faithful have all been using or keeping an eye on for quite a while now. I thought about not posting as it reminded me a little bit of Dr. Evil’s “I call it a ‘Laser’” scheme, but it does offer [...]
Digg getting into local news?
Digg has always featured local news stories submitted by its users, but they haven’t been organized around location. At a town hall event in Denver, Digg’s founders hinted at new features on the way. Quoting CNET now: One question suggested “geotagging” for stories to group them into local news stories, something that could make the [...]
Washington Post goes live via cell phone
Washington Post reporter Ed O’Keefe was standing close to Hillary Clinton last night during Obama’s nomination, and he streamed this clip live into WashingtonPost.com’s webcast. “This is one of the first times a newspaper organization has had the ability to bring this level of live video coverage to viewers,” explains a WashingtonPost.com publicist. O’Keefe was [...]
Sports journalism now ‘a website business’
When popular sports columnist Jay Mariotti resigned from the Chicago Sun-Times this week, he explained his decision this way: sports journalism has become “entirely a website business.” He had just returned from Beijing, where he said most of the journalists there were reporting for the web. So now Mariotti is looking to land an online [...]
Safran’s side project: Obaden ’08
Lost Remote Emeritus for Eternity, Steve Safran, is trying a little experiment. Along with his friend, animator and designer Greg Pair, they’ve launched a CafePress section with merchandise stamped with Obaden ’08 — as in Obama and Biden, complete with the racially accurate logo. “This is a test to see how people could do if [...]
