The first source that I had heard about the Paris attacks from were from the BBC which I got to through reddit. The article started off as simply text with promised updates and grew as more information came in. At first, as I recall, the explosions at the French national soccer stadium was reported. This was most important at the time as the French president was attending the match between the French and German national teams in a friendly. The explosions were audible during broadcasts of the game, and it was eventually determined that these explosions were as a result of suicide bombers. The second thing I recall being reported were the shootings at the Bataclan concert hall. At the time, the American band "Eagles of Death Metal" were performing there. The BBC continued to report increases in death tolls and new locations of shootings, as multiple different restaurants were also targeted. As more media came in, the BBC added photos from the scenes of the attacks, particularly the ones from the soccer match and the Bataclan, which ended up taking the most damage of any location. Eventually, using Google Maps, the BBC added a google map to show the locations of the attacks in relation to each other. Videos came in of survivors fleeing the scenes of the shootings. They added interviews of survivors and figured out that this was an extremist attack plotted by ISIS. They also had a live feed going which updated every time new information was added. A user on reddit also did this up to the minute, which is what I personally followed more intently. That being said, the BBC was far more detailed overall and the multimedia they added was not invasive and in fact gave the story more personal depth as they only used what seemed to be the most valuable media available. NBC news also had an article that was updated as new information came in. They had a map timeline that was actually quite useful, as it showed all of the locations that had gotten attacked and when they got attacked in local time, showing the progression of the attack. It was also the only news source that I saw that included the number of those injured in the attacks, rather than those killed. There were 352 victims injured in the attacks, and 128 dead. Some other useful media that played a large part in the attacks were Periscope, which had multiple streams up to record the many people fleeing from different locations, and twitter, as always. BBC included hashtags as a part of their report, to show how the attacks were spreading on social media. All in all, it looked like the media that was used was relevant, helpful, and in good taste in covering such a terrible tragedy.
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