Terror or Accident? <i>Newsday</i> and the Crash of American Airlines Flight 587

This text+video case asks students to engage in a difficult calculus: report on deadline about a disaster when the causes are unclear. On November 12, 2001, two months and a day after the terrorist attacks of September 11, American Airlines Flight 587 leaving Kennedy Airport went down in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York.

This is a video case.

Case number: CSJ-09-0013.0
Category: Journalism Cases
Topics: digital media, crisis reporting
Teaching resources: Teaching note

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