Their updates come in harried bursts.
Real-time narrations of the scene at Columbia University’s protest encampment in Manhattan, interspersed with the calmer voice of a host in the studio, directing live on air the dozen or so student journalists covering the moment police officers in riot gear moved in to clear an occupied university building Tuesday night.
“Do we have a field reporter over on Amsterdam?
We have word that arrests are happening on Amsterdam, if we could get a field reporter over there.”“Sorry, Sarah, do you need to go?”“It’s getting really hard for us to report from this vantage.”The stream from the Columbia University student-run radio station, WKCR, was so popular that night that its website crashed.
As pro-Palestinian demonstrators seized Hamilton Hall, theirs was one of the most extensive broadcasts from the scene because the school had limited access for professional journalists.
Persons:
Sarah, It’s
Organizations:
Columbia University, Palestinian, Hamilton Hall
Locations:
Columbia, Manhattan, Amsterdam