Park River Robbery

There was very little local news coverage of the event that I saw. STN was there to get footage first and we had a story on it during our broadcast the next day. We covered the event itself and what exactly happened. The only other news story I saw was quickly on NBC 30. They covered the possible issue of the alert not going out fast and effective enough. I think that issue is one of the more important ones out of the experience to get covered. As the robbery was going on STN 2 tried to update our website and alert on the channel as frequently as possible but information was hard to come by. CBS channel 3 had a scrolling banner at the bottom of their channel with a little bit of information as it was going on. I think the text alerts went out too late to be as effective as they should have been. The robbery reportedly occurred at 5:20 but the first text wasn’t received until about 7:00. And for those not signed up for text alert system there was no email sent out until after the situation was over. There was a good deal of inaccurate information out there like a hostage situation or even a sniper. If the school had more effectively communicated with its students and news outlets some fear and panic could have been avoided. There still seems to be a lack of concrete information on what actually happened. What was taken? Who did it? Was there another motive besides money? But I think the most important thing to find out for now is why exactly the school made the decisions it did in regards to informing the public and students.