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Suw Charman-Anderson

Suw Charman-Anderson is a social software consultant and writer who specialises in the use of blogs and wikis behind the firewall. With a background in journalism, publishing and web design, Suw is now one of the UK’s best known bloggers, frequently speaking at conferences and seminars.

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Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson is a freelance journalist and digital strategist with more than a decade of experience with the BBC and the Guardian. He has been a digital journalist since 1996 with experience in radio, television, print and the web. As a journalist, he uses blogs, social networks, Web 2.0 tools and mobile technology to break news, to engage with audiences and tell the story behind the headlines in multiple media and on multiple platforms.

From 2009-2010, he was the digital research editor at The Guardian where he focused on evaluating and adapting digital innovations to support The Guardian’s world-class journalism. He joined The Guardian in September 2006 as their first blogs editor after 8 years with the BBC working across the web, television and radio. He joined the BBC in 1998 to become their first online journalist outside of the UK, working as the Washington correspondent for BBCNews.com.

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Monday, November 12th, 2007

Breaking news: Fire east of London

Posted by Kevin Anderson



Photo: Fire east of London, by Kevin Anderson

Six fire engines to the scene east of London as huge plume of smoke billows over London.

Within minutes of the fire being reported, pictures were posted on Flickr and one blogger even posted a video. I’m following the news via Flickr and blogs through Technorati on the Guardian’s News blog.

Journalism.co.uk has a good roundup of the breaking news coverage of the fire via Twitter and blogs.

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4 Responses to “Breaking news: Fire east of London”

  1. BCP Says:

    Greetings from Washington D.C. Getting reports here that it is an industrial site. Stock futures markets moving up after intial shock. Looks ugly but, industrial chemical fires usually are. Yours was the first blog I came across that had the story. Who needs cables news? Will be watching to see how story develops. Thanks for posting

    BCP
    http://beercanpolitics.blogspot..com

  2. Oz Says:

    It has been reported that the fire is in a bus depot and the London Fire Brigade says eight appliances and 40 firefighters are at the scene.

  3. Kevin Anderson Says:

    It was at a warehouse in Stratford. The reports of the bus depot were not correct. It is being called ‘an industrial estate’.

    The pictures on Flickr were pretty amazing. Especially the ones from Fink. He was on the 20th floor of a building in Canary Wharf:

    http://finkangel.blogspot.com/2007/11/huge-plume-of-smoke-over-stratford.html

  4. videolar Says:

    I am sad for the fire. I felt myself there, with Flickr’s photo.