Earthquake Coverage under the desk

Rolling news coverage from KTLA. It was 4.4 earthquake today. Actually, the first report came from a robot reporter (see Slate report by Will Oremus).

Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake. He rolled out of bed and went straight to his computer, where he found a brief story about the quake already written and waiting in the system. He glanced over the text and hit “publish.” And that’s how the LAT became the first media outlet to report on this morning’s temblor.