Calamities

Chatsworth crash: media scan

First news round-up, second news round-up.

  • At 8:30 pm, Channels 2 and 7 are the only Los Angeles TV stations still airing full coverage.
  • The Los Angeles Times story (timestamp 8:29 pm) leads with 15 fatalities, unattributed, at a time when the mayor and other authories are saying 10 confirmed deaths with more expected. Photos, video, map, discussion, sidebars. LATimes.com
  • First test for new Daily News editor Carolina Garcia, and so far the website has stories, photo galleries and a map up but looks to be just trying to keep up. The DN is outgunned, of course, and the best test will be tomorrow's print paper. DN.com
  • LAist has Zach Behrens on the scene and Lindsay William-Ross blogging updates. LAist
  • AM radio stations KNX and KFWB have stayed on the train disaster. KCRW-FM has picked up updates from LA Observed, and KPCC-FM has broken into programming with updates.



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