Comments on: Big Storm Hits Sydney: Photo Fallen Tree Blocking Street

By: Forrest

Forrest — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:39:34 +0000

Nice bit of journalism, and also it’s good that communities still help each other despite the “going to hell in a hand-basket” theory. We’ve been having a lot of powerful storms the past few years in the Pacific Northwest, too.

By: Vinston

Vinston — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:46:22 +0000

Look like you were blogger-on-spot for this so to say. Like the line about bloggers with camera phones vs “old media”. User submitted photos about “non-major” (or in some cases like London bombings even real big news stories), local events surely improved quality of coverage a lot. Think that especially goes for newspapers, particularly smaller, more locally orientated ones, as their photographers, simply can’t be everywhere.

By: Sueblilmely

Sueblilmely — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:37:05 +0000

“Old Media” does sometimes make use of readers contributions, very wisely. For example, the BBC site published many reader submitted photos of the floods in UK last year. The BBC would not have been able to take many of this type themselves of course, unless they used canoes!

EDITOR: that’s true and AFAIK the same applied for photos of the london bombings

By: Mark McGrouther

Mark McGrouther — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:59:19 +0000

Well done Neerav,

Yes I think you may be right – the face of traditional news reporting may be changing.

Keep up the good work.

Markmcg

By: creativestrokes

creativestrokes — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:01:44 +0000

the strom looks to be very powerful , well u did a job of a good citizen, well done.

By: Kathie Thomas

Kathie Thomas — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:20:25 +0000

Cool! I’ll have to watch for ‘local news’ for my area too! My phone is usually with me. We had half a day of rain in Melbourne yesterday which is probably newsworthy considering the drought we’ve been going through.

Great reporting!