Are you a newsbreaking blogger?
By adamg - Tue, 03/11/2008 - 8:51am.
An MSM reporter is doing a story on bloggers who break news. She asked me for some local folks doing this and right now my mind is mush, so if you've ever broken news - or try to - let me know and I'll forward your name for possible fame and fortune (well, fame, at any rate).
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Right here at UHub
I remember posting this item before it was in any other news media.
Davis Square LJ newsbreaking
Some news that has appeared first, or sometimes only, in the Davis Square LiveJournal:
The secret donut factory has closed
Share Group leaving Davis Square
car crash on kidder ave, between pearson ave and highland street. This turned out to be big news -- a state trooper chased a car into a residential neighborhood, where it killed an innocent person who was parked in other car there
SUV smashes into Porter Square Books (see also here and here)
Suicide attempt at Davis Square station
I was going to say,
I was going to say, certainly it'd be the Davis_Square and b0st0n LJs. Primary sources, too -- folks seeing and hearing things as they happen post on there.
Don't forget
There's always BREAKING NEWS!! whenever a plane flies over Davis Square. I'd link to an alert but there are too many to choose from.
Here's one from East Boston
Death for the Seville Theater?. Weeks before the Globe City Weekly picked up the story, the Hubster blog reported on a plan to demolish the abandoned Seville Theater in East Boston.
Speaking of which, did
Speaking of which, did anyone ever find out what this was?
http://www.universalhub.com/node/12550
It was that thing
One of the set of "things" that go BUMP in the night!