“We’re getting like 10 billion phone calls,” says VT editor

Los Angeles Times
Reporters for the Virginia Tech student newspaper, the Collegiate Times, continued to report and write stories even as phones failed and police evacuated them from their offices. “We knew there was going to be some kind of reliance on us, and we couldn’t let people down,” says managing editor Joe Kendall. Reporter Saira Haider, who lost a good friend in the massacre, says: “I don’t want to be biased — I just want to report. It is kind of hard to separate the two — the emotional side and the news side.”
> Ex-Collegiate Times staffer: It’s surreal to see this happening (Keynoter)
> Cable newscasts doing little but guessing and second-guessing (USAT)
> Bianculli: Cable news regained a bit of its focus, if not its soul (NYDN)
> CNN’s all-day average viewership of 1.4M was up 186% Monday (ChiTrib)
> Reporters at VT should be guided more by etiquette than ethics (Slate)