Online tips for covering a flood (or other disaster)
Steve Safran of Lost Remote wrote a really excellent list of six straight-to-the-point lessons for online journalists to learn before their city gets flooded — based on his experience in Boston last week. For example:
Of course, the amount of video crashed our email. LESSON THREE: Prepare your IT staff for this and have a plan in place to accommodate the influx of video and digital picture emails. This stuff is measured in megabytes, not kilobytes. It can be done – it does, however, require planning.
Steve makes some very good points about soliciting and using content from users and viewers too.
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