Breaking News Network

Breaking News Network is a subscriber service based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Created by a group of former firefighters, the service listens to police and firefighter scanners and records them in real time. Local journalists, rescue workers, and state agencies then pick up one-sentence lines about automobile crashes, fires, and crimes as they occur. This gives them the opportunity to respond to them. The service is open to anyone who subscribes to it. Dispatchers are employed 24/7 to monitor the radio traffic and pick out newsworthy information.

Further reading

New York Times story about BNN:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/nyregion/17breaking.html?scp=1&sq=%22breaking%20news%20network%22&st=cse

Baristanet.com:

http://www.baristanet.com/2011/03/montclairs-edgemont-school-students-involved-bus-crash/

http://www.baristanet.com/2011/06/bloomfield-blaze-under-control/

Northjersey.com:

http://blogs.northjersey.com/blogs/bergenbeat/paramus_police_shooting_prompts_potential_revision_to_official_notification/

http://www.northjersey.com/news/118142424_trapped_in_rollover.html

http://www.northjersey.com/news/crime_courts/118142129_West_Milford.html

New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/nyregion/05hoard.html

http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/officer-kills-vicious-loose-dog/

http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/robberies-plaguing-maplewood/

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/in-path-of-suspected-brooklyn-killer-a-trail-of-notices/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/nyregion/13scanner.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=scanner&st=cse

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/police-parlance-packaged-10-4/#more-135619

Patch.com:

http://fairfaxstation.patch.com/articles/early-morning-fire-displaces-fairfax-family

http://uppersouthampton.patch.com/articles/wachovia-bank-on-county-line-road-robbed-2

http://uppermacungie.patch.com/articles/state-police-at-fogelsville-confirm-lowhill-township-accident

http://pointpleasant.patch.com/articles/pedestrian-killed-in-long-branch-train-accident

http://middletown-nj.patch.com/articles/car-chase-of-alleged-stolen-vehicles-ensues

http://marlboro.patch.com/articles/fire-in-morganville-home-has-all-units-respond

http://holmdel.patch.com/articles/man-falls-from-ladder-on-woodside-place

Philly.com:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/129789903.html

http://articles.philly.com/2011-08-28/news/29938555_1_building-collapse-partial-building-fire-department-dispatcher

Reuters.com:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/04/12/people-corzine-idUSN1237875120070412

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/04/13/us-empirestate-fall-idUSN1323311420070413

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/11/09/idUSN09360543

Timesledger.com:

http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2011/45/laguardialaserpointers_we_2011_11_10_q.html

http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2011/44/kewgardenshillscarvsbuilding_ft_2011_11_03_q.html

The Morning Call:

http://articles.mcall.com/2011-06-05/news/mc-nazareth-gas-leak-20110604_1_ugi-spokesman-daniel-adamo-gas-leak-odor

Thestar.com:

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/5/30/worldupdates/2008-05-30T181957Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-338319-1&sec=Worldupdates

Trentonian:

http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/05/12/news/doc4a08f4b346719211710390.txt

Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041202002.html

Yournabe.com:

http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2011/08/23/queens/doc4e5400b660dc2887831585.txt

http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2011/09/08/queens/qns_violentweekend_all_2011_09_08_q_20110908.txt

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