With Resources Limited, the Media Struggle to Convey Disaster – NYTimes.com

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Media Struggle to Convey a Disaster (Published 2010)

Reporters and news anchors rushed to earthquake-stricken Haiti, and professional reporting was supplemented with Twitter and cellphones.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/world/americas/15media.html

In some cases, reporters and anchors were arriving well ahead of international relief organizations. In other cases, they were hitching rides with them.

“Wherever you are,” Anderson Cooper of CNN said Wednesday night, “hug a loved one close and thank God you are not in Port-au-Prince tonight.”