Boston U students cover the marathon bombing

• See student work at the Boston University News Service and and WTBU.
•  My multimedia students are doing amazing work for The Daily Free Press and getting national play.
• Follow my spring students on Twitter  https://twitter.com/CO201/online-journos-s13

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Tuesday Press Conference on Boston Marathon Bomb from Youjia Han on Vimeo.

More here. Check back for updates.

• Video: Post-standoff rally

• #OKatBU

• More on #OKatBU

• Storify: Reporting on the Marathon

• The role of Google docs

• Storify: Security hike
• Vine Videos: The aftermath

• Photos: The next day
• Storify: Five days from race to arrest
• Slide show: Pre-and post-blast

Pre-blasts:

• Number pick-up photos

• Slide show: Wheelchairs and more 
• Video: Midnight Marathon

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Here's what I told mystudents on Wednesday in an email. 

All of us are a part of what happened on Monday and its aftermath. You
may have lost a friend. Or, you went to cover a jubilant event and ended up in a bloody
war zone. We are all witnesses.

I think I’ve heard from all of you – a great relief since I had sent you down there. Keep in mind -- you never know when reporting will put you in harm’s way.  

Some of you may be grieving beyond work. If you are functioning, I suggest you get out there and help document this event. Text, photos, video anything --Put it on your blog. Storify your tweets.  It is the biggest story in the world right now and you are in the middle of it.  Be gentle with those who have been traumatized. But realize that people want to know what is going on – show or tell them what you are seeing. Boston.com had 5 million hits on Monday before it jammed up.

No pressure; not required. But, I will say that it helped meto get on my bike and ride over to BU to help the News Service. And, I will factor anything you get into your grade.

If you can find a marathon theme to your Friday reporting assignment, that would be great. Again, not required. We also need to get our minds off of the horrible images we’re seeing and documenting. So, life-goes-on stories will be great too.

Finally, please let me know if I can be of any help as a professor or as a person. We’ll get through this. 

Here's what I've been up to: