Continental Flight 3407 Aftermath and Media Coverage

If you haven’t been following WNYMedia’s coverage of the cleanup, recovery and investigation of the crash of Flight 3407, here’s a catchup of what we’ve seen and how we’re reporting it:

Marc Odien and Brian Zabka have been attending the daily press briefings and putting video of the proceedings on YouTube and our frontpage.

They also have an aerial view of the crash scene

Marc has been attending the press conferences and reporting primarily via Twitter.

Since the night of the crash, most of our reporting on the incident has been done “off-platform”.  Meaning that we are using social media tools like Twitter, Flickr and YouTube to to provide the coverage while using our homepage as a storage repository.  It’s a bit different than the way most media outlets provide coverage in that they typically use social media tools to drive traffic back to their own websites, in effect, they use social media to amplify their coverage…not provide it.

It is both a matter of necessity for us since we are not equipped with a live truck, satellite uplink and the tools that establishment media outlets have at their disposal and a matter of letting you the choose the channel on which you’d like to receive your updates.  It’s an idea we have been toying with for some time and I think it is finally congealing in our heads.

I have more to say about media coverage of the tragedy from establishment outlets, bloggers and social media contributors, but I’ll save that for another day.  Stay tuned on all of our various channels for daily updates as they become available.